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Just a matter of time before new school

How sad is it that on NHL’s 13th day of school we likely threw in the towel?

Yes, you read that right. Yesterday I talked with one of his providers who has seen the rigid and ridiculous expectations in this classroom. Not only for a 4 year old in PreK, but even for children in kindergarten a year older. She feels that the clearly angry behavior seen recently from NHL may be since he is frustrated in this classroom. According to her he’s overwhelmed with the extreme number of rules and protocol for each Montessori activity. There are usually 15+ sets of specific instructions with no wiggle room. All he hears all day is his name and being corrected about something – NEVER any positive reinforcement.

Yuck, no wonder yesterday morning he said he was sick and asked to stay home. I kid you not, my 4 year old son uttered those words to us on his 13th day of school. I never expected to hear those words until he was a lot older.

So we are looking at options and calling a meeting with his 3 providers and NOT the school now. I did tell his teacher I think we’re done soon and that I had had it. He’s acting out for a reason and I don’t want him to get a negative attitude about education. Clearly what NHL needs is a typical classroom where the teacher models things and less craziness is going on in the room. According to his occupationoal therapist he does amazing ay circle time where he interacts like you would in a regular classroom and he gets positive feedback.

More updates coming as we investigate all of our options.

C’est Moi

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Calgon take me far, far away!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks, I needed that. I have been crying almost all day and things keep getting worse. Where to begin. I guess this morning.

– I took NHL to school. After I left him (no tears) I felt like I was leaving my child in a place where nobody wanted him or was willing to work with him. Sad isn’t it that I feel this way on only his 11th day of school.

– I have been sick since last week. I was hoping poor JSL would avoid it. No such luck. The poor baby is so stuffed up. He keeps sneezing and has a crusty nose. Nobody has the Little Nose saline drops around here so I will try more locations tomorrow. For now I just hope to keep him comfortable enough to nurse and sleep. He’s so easy going though – he smiles even though he sounds and looks like crud.

– JL got a strange credit card in the mail. I had him call about it since he did not request it. It was legit. Apparently it was the new card for a department store that we supposedly got notice about and did not opt out of. Thanks to this scare we decided tonight to run a credit report since we get 3 free from each bureau each calendar year.  Please recall this for later on.

– This afternoon when I picked NHL up his teacher was avoiding me. Great, lovely, wonderful. This confirmed my first point above. Apparently he had a decent morning , but a bad afternoon. Not sure who, but he hit a teacher. Mind you his teacher was NOT going to tell me this. I really am close to giving up since they seem to be. They won’t take any suggestions I have to help the situation. I know he’s testing them, but they need to grow a set and set up consequences for bad actions in the classroom. He’s a very young 4, but I know he’s aware of what he’s doing.

– Thanks to the above I opted not to go to the PTA meeting at school tonight. Instead I went to Target to look for said saline drops for JSL and get a few other items. While there I got a call from JL. He just got an automated call from the credit card company about a fraud alert (not the one from this morning). He called them back. . . . sure enough a $3500 charge that he did NOT make. The account is frozen and they are looking into it. I have to say they are damn good. We think this literally happened minutes before the call since they really had sketchy details. So now we HAVE to do the credit check to see what the heck is going on.

– While JL was on the phone with the credit card company NHL was on the couch. He moved his legs and knocked my laptop off the couch (I leave it there to use when I am nursing JSL). JL told him to keep his legs away and picked the computer back up and put it on the couch. Don’t you know my sweet (note the sarcasm) child kicked it right back off the couch. Luckily it seems to work, but he killed two items. My USB mouse is dead and the port it was in is toast as well. GRRRRRRR!!!!!

– So I walked back into the house to NHLcrying in his bed, JSL sobbing, and JL trying to sort out the credit woes. Seriously this is enough for one day. I think I’m going to crawl under the covers to avoid doing another other damage to myself.

C’est Moi

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Baby tawking characters must STOP

Thanks to my friend L I finally figured out why I do not like a show that NHL now enjoys. Jack’s Big Music Show seems to really engage NHL. He loves to dance and sing along with it on Noggin, but it annoys the heck out of me. I thought it was just the songs, but I knew there was something else. Sure enough L helped me to solve the mystery . . . it’s the voice of Jack. Why? Well, the person that does Baby Bear on Sesame Street is Jack. I can not stand Baby Bear. I think it is wrong that a children’s educational show promotes a character that does baby talk with a horrid speech impediment. Sure it’s cute when kids say something wrong, but we do not want this to continue forever. These characters seem to promote it and as an educator it really bothers me.

Vent over

C’est Moi

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