Just one of those frustrating days

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Just one of those frustrating days
Fri, 09-09-2005 - 5:29pm

So I am growling and thanking god it is friday! ANd naturally, I am coming to my vent place.

1) that back-breaking final straw. I just got a message from the kids therapist. It was rather cryptic but reading between the lines and knowing how things have been going with changing appointments and cancelling appointments I have a feeling she is ditching us under the guise that it would be better for the kids to go to "social skills groups" offered by a different therapist that I can't afford and aren't covered by insurance.

I am furious because I know she is busy and popular, many people pay privately for her and my insurance is a pain. So I have a feeling it has more to do with money and needing to weed out some clientel than it does with what is good for the kids.

2) Had back to school night at Cait's school and everytime I go there and meet with those folks I just get this uneasy feeling. Nothing, huge, lots of little things, but I am just underwhelmed with the whole thing. For instance, her study skills class everyday is in the hall between the gym and the band room and run by an aide. The teacher is in the closet they call a SDC room doing a social skills lesson with 7th grade.

3) Every day I have to go through Cait's backpack and organize it and her binder. Everything is just basically falling out or shoved in the bottom. Her daily assignment sheet is never filled in. She doesn't usually even know what her homework is and most of the time doesn't understand it unless it is worksheets. I end up trying to figure it out from looking through everything.

5) Lack of communication from Mike's teacher - suddenly since he isn't the new kid it is like he is forgotton. I have left notes in his notebook for the past week. 2 of them. No responses at all. All I get is his daily behavior sheet which is only filled in 1/2 the time and always says the same. It is all excellents and he is apparently doing well, but he is coming home stressed and it is getting missed.

AND 6) the darn state testing results are over a week late.

There are lots of good things to this year, it is just one of those days where it is piling up.

Gotta go run and get them.

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