MySmallWorldof4
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Gosh, with all those knives in your possession you would think no one would bully your son.Oh that's so great your son's school was on top of the bullying! Ours has not been. DS has been bullied for YEARS. We thought it was going better last year...he had a teacher that I had actually been warned about that she was not nice and only yelled at the kids and it turned out she was the BEST teacher he had. She was so supportive of him and could really reach him before he had a meltdown and she made sure to come talk to me whenever there was any sort of incident so I would know what happened when DS talked about it. No other teacher ever did that...DS would tell me something and I would have to make an appointment with the teacher to find out what happened. So we LOVED this teacher and she was great with him and he had a great year last year. This year, we weren't even through the first week before I was called in because there were problems, and we tried an after-school program that did not help, and several of the kids who DS THOUGHT were his friends suddenly said they weren't, and he was sitting alone at recess because if he tried to play with the other kids, they ganged up on him and decided to play new games that generally involved kicking a soccer ball as hard as they could at him. And then the new girl arrived and they completely clicked, but she was warned off and when she didn't comply, the kids drew on her gym clothes, took stuff from her desk, pushed her off of playground equipment...it took 6 weeks for them to drive her off and her mom apped me and told me she was so sorry her daughter was not going to be able to play with DS anymore because she was too scared. The school has basically pushed it onto DS...if he acted "normal", the other kids wouldn't target him. So we have to get HIM help so that HE doesn't get bullied instead of ensuring the bullies stop bullying. There was a period towards the end of last year that I was in the school 3 times a week for meetings with teachers and support staff to set up the testing, filling out behavioral questionnaires, writing up step plans for DS's safety at recess, etc. I'm sure you understand all about that and how emotionally exhausting it all is. But you have got it mostly worked out now, correct? So I'm hopeful that once we get the diagnosis, we can get a plan in place and get things moving in the right direction.
Let's not kid ourselves...you are not going to take up napping!But I'm glad things are going well, and yay for the knives fulfilling their destiny! I use mine every day...I have basically the same ones. My dad has just given me so many over the years that I've had to parcel them out among friends and family to make sure they have good homes where they won't just sit in a box. I just can't use 40 knives! I have 5 that I use pretty regularly and a couple more in the drawer that rarely see any action. So I'm glad you can get some use out of a few and it's a nice reminder of the trip. Isn't the Poly amazing? Have you ever stayed there? It's now on my bucket list just from seeing the lobby and eating at O'hana (pretty sure I spelled that wrong). I told hubby that we need to win millions in the lottery so we can take a 2 week vacation to Disney every Summer and stay at a different resort every time, starting with the Poly.
You are in Wyoming? I am guessing you may not have another school choice? Homeschool?
