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The Calm

Friday, March 12, 2010

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 [...]

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Teachers Behaving Badly

Thursday, March 4, 2010

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 [...]

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…’should’ continued…

Thursday, February 18, 2010

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 [...]

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The Fear And The Confusion

Thursday, January 28, 2010

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 [...]

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IEP Meeting & Clampdown

Thursday, January 21, 2010

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 [...]

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Smokin A Pall Mall, Drinkin A Colt 45

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

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 [...]

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Learning Disabilities And Emotional Lability

Monday, January 18, 2010

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 [...]

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Not Quite Ready

Thursday, January 14, 2010

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 [...]

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All That Glitters Is Not Gold

Monday, January 11, 2010

Rye started at the new school today.
The new school is very different from the old school.  The old school enrolls primarily upper-middle class students who come from families where both parents went to college, have corporate or professional jobs and live in very large, shiny new houses in planned subdivisions.  The kids are very competitive [...]

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The New School

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Well, the transfer was approved and Rye starts at the new school Monday.

He was worried he would get bored homeschooling so, here we go.  We’ll try this school on for size and see how it fits.
Actually to me it’s a bit of a bummer that the transfer went through so fast as we were hoping [...]

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What Just Happened?

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Today has been a bit of a rough one mentally.  After an hour(s) long conversation with Rye this morning after he refused to go to school and I completely wanted to strangle him, it became clear to me that he will not be able to continue to go to his current school without imploding.  Or [...]

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