Thread:Gaiasweetgirl/@comment-32899062-20180410202244/@comment-34076922-20180414212738

Eat girl eat!!!

My son usually does his work on his own, he has classes I just look over his notes or tests and don't do anything much. He has one writing class with A LOT of work and had I known this I may not have had him take this class this past school year. A HS class with College content -- no one told me this?! But he has gotten a lot out of it, just tough for him to focus since it's very heavy on doing the assignments which have been 3 at a time (at times) and he needs a lot of down time inbetween his work. He is on the spectrum and has anxiety so he needs a little hand holding now and then. This year he verbally gave me answers which I took as dictation, then he did his own editing and I formatted his pages -- which he was supposed to do on his own -- but we're working on how it needs to be done. Took me a month to get my Microsift Word program to get the double spaced format option! This teacher actually takes a ruler and measures the margins and deducts points if not correct so I emailed her and said "if you take of points that's fine but I cannot make this work!" ... I did figure it out after a did a google search (ha!!!) but she has expectations that are quite extreme and I picked up that "slack" for my son since it was kinda crazy to figure it out. LOL

I am usually the mom that is hands on, a lot of his friends like that, some parents "check out" when their kids go to HS. Or are very strict and I am not (for the most part). I think when your child has issues that others do not understand or accept it's a different way to parent. I know from experience that what you expect of your child - and what they can do - is not always in synch. It's a learning curve and one that continues every day.

I woould be happy to hold your hand, make you something to eat, and bring you watermelon vodka with lemonade, just let me get cleared from post op and I am on my way! =)