Hows about an update thread?

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Hows about an update thread?
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Thu, 09-22-2005 - 8:40am

Now that most of our kids should be settling back into school/fall routines, I thought it woudl be nice to get some updates.

How are our kids doing back at school (or wherever)?. Aby big changes since last year?

How about outside of school? Any new classes/friends/sports activities?

And just as importantly: How are we moms doing? Was the adjustment to a big one? Any guilty pleasures to get us through the days?

-Paula

-Paula

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Registered: 06-09-2005
Fri, 09-23-2005 - 7:43pm

If anyone likes memoirs, I just read "The Glass Castle" but Jeannette Walls.. very good.

I am enjoying my guilty pleasure, a Sam Adams Oktoberfest. Dan took Ryan to a soccer game.

Ryan started K this year. He shares an aide with 1 other student, gets speech and time with the Autism resource teacher, who mostly works with him on social skills. It is going ok, but this week he had a few meltdowns at school. I think I need to do some social stories to outline some things at school.

Also, we had been putting him on the regular bus just to see how it went, and it was fine.. for awhile. Except this one kid is picking on him, getting in his face every day, and the worse part is that it is our neighbor. The kid has ADHD, and has had problems at school before. He was on Ryan's T-Ball team, and was always back talking the coach, and I know he had a rough kindie. But when he does this stuff at the bus stop, his parents do nothing. I mustered(sp?) up the nerve to try and discuss Asperger's with his mother and another mother at the bus stop. This is a really big thing for me.. Ryan isn't the only member of the family with social skill problems ;) So I try and simply and succintly explain the jist of AS, and get a good response... but this mother is not going to try and help me get her son out of my son's face. It's my problem not her's. I work FT, so Ryan riding the bus in the morning had allowed me to get into work a little earlier. I might just have to drive him to school. Dad does the pickup. Oh well.

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