I am taking a class this semester that requires that I supply a journal entry every week....which means I have an EXCUSE to come sit in the AC at the inlaws and get on Blogger and BLOG!!! whoo hoo!
SOOOOOOO here I am :)
Life has been Hectic, as usual! all 3 kids are busy and nearly at the end of the second week of classes along with myself. Samantha so far is doing so much better than I expected this year, she hasn't had a frustration melt down yet...even when I have her correct letter shapes during handwriting. She did quite a bit of Maturing over the summer and its been a great thing now that I have all the kids home every day!
Matthew is my source of pride and frustration all rolled into one. I love that child and I am sooo very proud of his abilities, and yet I find myself frustrated many times to. Just the other day we were reading a story for language arts and the questions at the end ask you to write about how a particular part of the story makes you feel and why that is interesting, and he just DIDN"T get it.... story's don't have FEELINGS the "tell him stuff" LOL we had to sit for some time and talk about how the words in the story helped him to build a picture in his mind about what was going on and how he could tell from that picture how it might make him feel...I think he got it?
I feel like my biggest struggle with Matthew is what people can't see. I hear from people all of the time how he is just "all boy" or a typical "busy body" and how he's "so smart" for his age. and although most of those things make me smile, I think that it also worry's me because what others see as "defiance" is actually Matthew's inability to perceive a social norm outside of his rule set. and what others see as "hyper active or talkative" is really Matthew being over stimulated or so lost in his own subject that he is unable to ever actually have a peer conversation with any give-take in it. It makes me happy for people to see him as a typical boy, but it also makes it hard for me to make sure that he is receiving the support that he needs to help in to function and not be so busy in his own world that he is actually not getting any information from the experience at hand.
I'm reading a book right now titled: Parenting Your Asperger Child: Individualized Solutions for Teaching Your Child Practical Skills by Alan Sohn
on a type of therapy called CSIT or Cognitive Social Integration Therapy that I hope will help us with all of these things!
I have lots to share about the other kids and other thoughts, but I'm going to share them next week!
2 comments:
Cool that you get to blog for school. Sounds like you are OF COURSE being great mom!!!!
i love that you have to blog for school! that means i will get more updates! <3 love you and keep up the amazing work - your kids are a testament to your love and patience and perseverance.
By the time they are adults, every day their actions will show you that every struggle was worthwhile because you shaped them into who they are, and who they are is decent and hard-working and loving.
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