Wednesday, May 19, 2004
I think we have turned a corner in Aidan's potttying. She has been doing a great job telling her teachers at school when she needs to go and yesterday when she got home from school, I asked her if she needed to go potty and instead of arguing about it she said yes and went! HURRAY!!!
We are going over to the ABA program today. Not lookin forward to it. But I know I have to at least look at it so it doesn't look like I am dismissing it out of hand. I heard something disturbing about the other kindergarten yesterday. One of the teachers at Ian's preschool has a kid with ADHD in that kindergarten this year. At his PET they decided that he didn't need any services at all. So he has been having lots of behavior issues. And as a discipline strategy they have been giving him time-out at recess. They have been giving a kid with ADHD time-out at recess. A kid who really NEEDS to get out and run around, burn off some energy, use those gross motor, large muscle skills to regulate... And they give him time-out during the one period in the day when it's actually ok for him to do that. GAD! And the school psychologist told his mother that there was no way to get him services until he failed academically. Ok. First of all, his behavior is related to his diagnosed ADHD. It is obvious to everyone but him and the lampost that they were wrong to say in the PET that he didn't need services. Second, THAT'S ILLEGAL!!!!! Do they not have copies of IDEA at that school! And according to the mother, they are not using multi-level instruction in the classroom he is in. Which is completely opposite of what the principal told me on my tour of the place. So. It is not the utopia she led me to believe it was. But it may just be the teacher. And it may be that the psychologist doesn't know he's an IDIOT! So, I will just have to be more vigilant and plugged in. I will have to get attached at the hip to his teacher and to the principal, I guess. I can do that. I have the technology. If I have to plant a GPS tracking sensor on both of them I will.
I had another Mother's Day surprise. John is giving me a Mommy's Weekend Away!!! I am going to The Eastland for 3 days of no kids. YIPPEEEEEE!!!!!!! I am going to be on the Consierge Club Level. Free Breakfast and a Complimentary Cocktail every day. And I don't have to go down to the regular restauraunt with the rest of the riff raff. I get to go to the Top of the Eastland. :oD And I will have access to the free Business Center with free High Speed Internet Access. I will have a dataport in the room and I have signed up for the free trial of AOL but I don't know how well it will work out. We'll see. I hope they have a REALLY BIG bathtub. I may even take my crosstitching along and actually relax. Watch the Discovery Channel. Read a book. Go pee without an audience. You know. The simple pleasures.
But I will miss Aidan running in and climbing in bed with me in the morning. I just wish she wouldn't do it at 6:00 am when I don't have to get up until 7:30. I can't remember the last time I woke up naturally. When there wasn't an alarm clock beeping or a kid saying "Mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy..." I had one of these before a couple of years ago. But I got the worst case of stomach flu I have ever had in my life and wasn't able to enjoy it. Hopefully, this time will be different. I'm going to pack extra Pepto, just in case. :oD
I have an appointment with the Ear specialist/Audiologist on Tuesday. I thought that while we still had the good insurance I would see if I am deaf enough to cover hearing aids yet. I am having a whole lot more trouble hearing people when they are talking to me. I have had to tell a couple of bank tellers and store checkers that I can't hear very well and please look at me when you talk. Embarassing. Humiliating. That crawl under a rock and sink kind of feeling. UGH.
The Lexapro is doing great, though. I highly recommend it.
That's about it for today.
Peace.
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