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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 [...]
Back at the homestead:
Earlier this week we went to the Sheriff’s office and filed the case on the teacher from last week. On the Sheriff’s part, the investigation was done and everything was filed and now it was time to do our part. The Sheriff told me I needed to take Rye with me to [...]
Well, I’ll tell you, it seems like it’s always something.
Rye was physically assaulted by a teacher this week at the zoo of a school he goes to simply for saying no to said teacher. We have tried to communicate nicely with the school, give the teacher the benefit of the doubt, and were hoping for [...]
so, as to the don’t ’should’ story…
What Red meant in this statement is that it is not good for one to look at the world through a lens of ’shoulds’ because you ruin what is by comparing it to what you feel, for whatever reason, should be.
In other words, by ’shouding’ all over everything, not [...]
Well, I’d say overall it’s been a medium to good day (medium as in mediocre, not channeling the dead) over here.
It started out with Rye having a complete meltdown before school. He was overtired and I’m sure the excitement and anticipation of the dance was weighing on him as well. Anyway, he fell apart over [...]
One of the things we deal with on a nearly daily basis is Rye’s fear and confusion.
Despite the fact that he is very social, outgoing and somewhat daring, Rye has a lot of fears. Many of them are common for children his age and many of them are exacerbated by the fact that he naturally [...]
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 [...]
I am happy to announce that Rye is back in school today. He did not finish all of the school work sent home for his 3 day hiatus however considering the English teacher alone assigned him 57 pages of grammar work to complete in a grammar book she did not even send home with him [...]
So, AA and Sherry’s comments got me thinking about learning disabilities which then got me thinking about their effect on emotional regulation. Rye is quite learning disabled. We have not had him testing recently but we know from previous testing that he has significant dyselxia, short term memory problems as well as processing disorders (auditory [...]
Apparently Rye was not quite ready to fully jump into the change of schools. Two days in and he intentionally rough-housed with a friend of his and then admitted to hitting the friend in the face to get out-of-school suspension. He did it on purpose. He didn’t hurt the friend at all and this is [...]
