Things are better

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Things are better
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Wed, 09-06-2006 - 2:46pm

Ian is beginning to calm down and sleep better. He did have two slight bed wetting accidents in the past week, but he is not fighting sleep as much. My guess is he was so exhausted he finally slept really hard and just didn't wake in time to make it to the bathroom. He did however, stop mid-pee and so it isn't total regression. I can tell he's still having a bit of anxiety because he's in a bad mood after school. If THAT keeps up I will be taking him back to see his doctor to discuss it.

I took my own advice and loaded up on Benedryl at night and made my husband get up and get Ian ready the next day.

Duncan's first day at his new preschool went great until he was asked to draw a picture of himself. He said he got the head too small, the eyes too big and one leg and foot looked funny. So he yelled (or really rather talked very loudly and forcefully) that he couldn't do it, it was dumb, etc. He was able to articulate the experience very well later on to me. His teacher was mildly concerned. He was perfectly happy to go back today, so it must not have been too bad.

My first day working there was really frazzling. The other aid didn't show up so I did two classrooms myself, with very little help and not having actually done it before. I had a hard time finding everything, but the teachers were really patient with me, so that was good. And who says NT kids don't have issues???? One little girl cried for her mother the entire time. She was really cute, though. She came wearing doggy ears and a doggy tail stuck out of her pants. There was also a little boy there who I feel pretty sure has some PDD issues, bless his heart. I think he was my favorite.

By the way, I saw a very interesting article today on MSN.com about how much pressure the kindergardners and 1st graders are under. I thought the reference to redshirting was very interesting (where the parents hold the kids back from going to kindergarden so they will have an advantage in sports) because so many parents hold their (NT) kids back from kindergarden around here. That was the deciding factor in keeping Duncan out. If they're keeping their NT kids out, how is my PDD-NOS kid going to do if he's one of the youngest in the class??? It sort of ticks me off if I think about it too long, so I try not to.

Kelly

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Thu, 09-07-2006 - 10:05am

I had never heard of redshirting before.

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Thu, 09-07-2006 - 10:49am

Glad to hear things have gotten better :)

The reshirting thing burns me up too. I know of one boy in my ds's class who's parents did that. Its ridiculous.

Samantha

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