Saturday, January 15, 2011

The week in review for January 9th to the 15th

Been kinda busy here. My daughter had a kind of roller coaster week. I am sure any reading this with children with ADD know what I am talking about. We try to keep things on an even keel but live has a way of throwing unexpected issues. Seems this week the school my daughter attends finally got the big blowup scenario that we here at home have dealt with for quite a long time. Yes papers flying pencil thrown on ground and all for she got mad with a fellow student. Boy the teacher who had been warned all along that this could happen at the drop of a hat seemed to be taken back by it. But when advised again, that we at home have seen this almost on a daily instance she calmed down. Now we are all on the same boat talking and teaching about making right choices and how to deal with our frustration in an appropriate manner.
Oh well that is life. Hope that my daughter has a better week next week. All I do is calmly love her via hugs and try to talk to her in a calm soothing voice when she gets frustrated by things.I find this helps not only her but me as well. Till next time.

Thursday, January 6, 2011

ADD, School and choices.

Well apparently my daughter gave her teacher a rough time today. She told my wife that we both needed to talk to my daughter about making appropriate choices. When we talked to my daughter her reply was that some their made her mad. Thus, I guess what happen is my daughter decided to respond very negatively to the situation.
The result we talked to her about the concept of "Two wrongs do not make a right" and then we advised my daughter that when she decides to make trouble for the teacher then each and every time she will have to write a sorry letter or card. Which indeed she did after much complaining.

Sunday, January 2, 2011