Yesterday I did an interview for Mommy Lebron and the Bipolar Tuesday section of her blog, Rage Against The Washing Machine.
Check it out.
http://mommylebron.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/bipolar-tuesday-voices-from-the-front/
And thanks Mommy Lebron for contacting me to participate in this.
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In general what to find to be the biggest issue that bipolar disorder poses to your family?
The biggest issue we find with [...]
This is a great video. It is about the current public education model and how it is based on the times of the Industrial Revolution and harms as many kids as it helps. As Don and I seriously contemplate pulling our son out of public school again [as we see daily that it's doing him [...]
So, as you know by now, we have a few difficulties with the school Rye attends. And that would be a gross understatement. Without going back over it all, suffice it to say this is not the most enlightened, progressive, or proactive public school in the world. Or, even in our county (which, by the [...]
Today is back to school day here at the homestead.
I’m excited and nervous all at the same time. Excited to have some time to myself. Excited to get back into a routine. Excited to not be on 24/7 kid duty. However, I’m nervous as well. Rye’s school is not the pride and joy of the [...]
As it turns out, Rye could not follow the rules of the house so we took him to the hospital. We could not get the Depakote level high enough, fast enough to stay helpful once his body adjusted to it and we just could not keep him safe. From himself.
It’s kind of a weird thing, really.
I’m [...]
After an incredibly terrible rage/meltdown on Rye’s part after school yesterday (he was whipped by another kid with a long stick that made a huge welt/mark on him and nothing was done to protect him or help him), me having to completely knock him out with Klonopin when we got home just to calm him [...]
Well, it’s done for now. It was very tense and 2.5 hours long and we still didn’t cover everything. But we did get Rye a shortened day. And he will no longer have Social Science or Science classes for the rest of the year. We’ll just focus on reading, writing, and math. I’m happy with [...]
I was watching “19 Kids and Counting” tonight and Michelle Duggar said this about her kids and homeschooling, the world is a classroom. I thought it was great. Because it’s so true. And I wonder, is “out-of-school schooling” better for some kids that “in-school schooling”? Could be. And I may have one of those kids.
Now, [...]
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D’jew find jew anything, Mae?
Yea, sissy, I found me a really nice Bible. Who’d’ve thought? Right here in this store.
And it’s beautiful.
This was the conversation I overheard in the Goodwill store yesterday. Don and I were in a town south of us that I would definitely consider to be the deep South. It looks [...]
When underwater, the world above is muffled. The sounds are hardly detectable. The sight is blurred. And the weight of the water pushes on the body like a gentle, loving embrace.
Rye is out of school now until the school can come with a better plan for him. Being a victim to physical assault and gross [...]
So, in a strange turn of events I went to the IEP meeting yesterday and the teachers and administrator there apologized for Rye getting out of school suspension. His case manager asked me to please not think that is how things will go at this school and to not let it discolor my view of [...]
