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<div>Originally Posted by <strong>LilyGrace</strong> <a href="/community/forum/post/14471652"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/community/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border:0px solid;"></a></div>
<div style="font-style:italic;">.......and now the bad news. Due to medical issues, I may have to put The Kid in school for the last half of the school year. I'm to be gone 3 months, and if they don't let The Kid and dh come with we have to come up with another plan. (I have to go to a place, any place, where there's actual medical services, unlike here on the island) We told The Kid over dinner tonight and he was a bit bummed but understands. If he could come with we'd only be taking a month break and wouldn't have to quit.</div>
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<img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/img/vbsmilies/smilies/hug2.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="Hug2"> I hope it all works out for you, and you make a full and speedy recovery. The Kid will be fine whatever happens, even if it means a traditional school for the rest of this year.<br><br><div style="margin:20px;margin-top:5px;">
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<div>Originally Posted by <strong>langdonslady</strong> <a href="/community/forum/post/14480667"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/community/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border:0px solid;"></a></div>
<div style="font-style:italic;">Oh, I have found my niche!<br>
Now I just need to find enough of you in my area to find friends (like more than one or two and in less than an hour's drive away!) not only for my kids, but heck why not me while we are wishing!</div>
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Where do you live? I found a pretty good group here on Long Island. It's a slightly different group of moms now that I'm homeschooling my little one (and no longer HSing the big ones, and thus a slightly different group of parents even though it's officially the same HS group) but I've made at least one good friend and there's plenty of stuff for DS. We go to gymnastics class this afternoon.<br><br>
I'm just feeling a little confused these days and I'm starting to doubt myself. I put a lot of energy into getting the girls ready for school, kind of ignoring DS in the process. Then DD2 needed tons of help with homework most afternoons. I've been thankful I had DS home with me during the day, so that he gets 1:1 time with me during school hours, otherwise he'd be needing my attention in the afternoons and REALLY acting out when I was busy with DD2 at that time.<br><br>
Seeing DD2 blossom in school is doing two things to my brain. First of all, it's making me say "wow! She's thriving in spite of the fact that she's done very little formal academics- she's doing beautifully because she's ready for this now." OTOH, it's making me say "she's learning so much stuff, being so busy, yet DS is home and bored. Maybe I'm doing him a disservice by keeping him home, maybe I can't challenge him enough." Then I think "but if I push him he'll be miserable and not learn anything, be patient like I was with DD2 and he'll blossom in his own time."<br><br>
He's starting to show signs of ADD, which I never noticed before he was home with me. Is it my fault that he's acting like this, because I'm not managing to get him to bed early enough so he's not getting enough sleep? Or has he always been like this, and this is part of why he struggled in school so much last year?<br><br>
I just want to do what's best for him, but I'm no longer sure what that is.
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<div>Originally Posted by <strong>LilyGrace</strong> <a href="/community/forum/post/14471652"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/community/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border:0px solid;"></a></div>
<div style="font-style:italic;">.......and now the bad news. Due to medical issues, I may have to put The Kid in school for the last half of the school year. I'm to be gone 3 months, and if they don't let The Kid and dh come with we have to come up with another plan. (I have to go to a place, any place, where there's actual medical services, unlike here on the island) We told The Kid over dinner tonight and he was a bit bummed but understands. If he could come with we'd only be taking a month break and wouldn't have to quit.</div>
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<img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/img/vbsmilies/smilies/hug2.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="Hug2"> I hope it all works out for you, and you make a full and speedy recovery. The Kid will be fine whatever happens, even if it means a traditional school for the rest of this year.<br><br><div style="margin:20px;margin-top:5px;">
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<div>Originally Posted by <strong>langdonslady</strong> <a href="/community/forum/post/14480667"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/community/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border:0px solid;"></a></div>
<div style="font-style:italic;">Oh, I have found my niche!<br>
Now I just need to find enough of you in my area to find friends (like more than one or two and in less than an hour's drive away!) not only for my kids, but heck why not me while we are wishing!</div>
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Where do you live? I found a pretty good group here on Long Island. It's a slightly different group of moms now that I'm homeschooling my little one (and no longer HSing the big ones, and thus a slightly different group of parents even though it's officially the same HS group) but I've made at least one good friend and there's plenty of stuff for DS. We go to gymnastics class this afternoon.<br><br>
I'm just feeling a little confused these days and I'm starting to doubt myself. I put a lot of energy into getting the girls ready for school, kind of ignoring DS in the process. Then DD2 needed tons of help with homework most afternoons. I've been thankful I had DS home with me during the day, so that he gets 1:1 time with me during school hours, otherwise he'd be needing my attention in the afternoons and REALLY acting out when I was busy with DD2 at that time.<br><br>
Seeing DD2 blossom in school is doing two things to my brain. First of all, it's making me say "wow! She's thriving in spite of the fact that she's done very little formal academics- she's doing beautifully because she's ready for this now." OTOH, it's making me say "she's learning so much stuff, being so busy, yet DS is home and bored. Maybe I'm doing him a disservice by keeping him home, maybe I can't challenge him enough." Then I think "but if I push him he'll be miserable and not learn anything, be patient like I was with DD2 and he'll blossom in his own time."<br><br>
He's starting to show signs of ADD, which I never noticed before he was home with me. Is it my fault that he's acting like this, because I'm not managing to get him to bed early enough so he's not getting enough sleep? Or has he always been like this, and this is part of why he struggled in school so much last year?<br><br>
I just want to do what's best for him, but I'm no longer sure what that is.