As parents, we spend years focused on our child’s education. We want to know what they’re learning, how they are progressing, how it will all fit into their future endeavors, not only with later grade levels but with life. We want to do the best we can to help them succeed. Which is why when…
Category Archives: Individual Educational Plans
Post-IEP Discussion..
Wednesday was Jack’s IEP. Let me give you a little back story here. Jack’s “teacher” is a special education professional, who routinely wears fake hair and loud (loud isn’t the best adjective, but that’s all I can come up with) jumpers/sweaters. We refer to her as The General, because, quite frankly, that’s how she acts. Things…
The Dreaded IEP…
You know, I’ve read books about the IEP, I’ve watched speakers talk about the IEP, I’ve talked to teachers about the IEP… and I’ve listened to my other special needs friends talk about IEP. And, I think we’re all wrong. ALL OF US. The books- they were written about specific children in specific scenarios. As…
New year to begin…
I know what your thinking…NEW SCHOOL YEAR? How many days till school starts??? I have a friend that started counting the minute summer started. I enjoy our homeschooling time together. I love the beginning of a new year…the goals for the year, the dreams of what you want to work on, the reality of what…
Eating Issues
We’ve developed a really good system for getting the child to eat when we are together as a family. Like most things now that it has become the routine she doesn’t even need a lot of support for this most of the time, but occasionally she is too tired, anxious, excited, distracted, or angry to sit…
Connecting
DH and I met a lovely woman at the support group we attended last fall. Her son is similar in age to Precious and has a similar diagnosis; mild developmental disability. I emailed Steph a month or so ago and she, her husband and her son came over and hung out with our family for…
I’m Jealous
The recent post about the great school system from Tiffany , it made me jealous. Really, really jealous. This is not a feeling I often have, if ever, but I’ll say it out loud …I want what she has. We are just about to embark on the transition from Early Childhood (self-contained) to General Education…
Seasonal Parenting
As I am typing this Winter Solstice is winding down and I am rejoicing, not in the pagan holiday sense, but in the “Hooray! Days will start getting longer again,” sense. I have been considering the “seasons” that our family goes through each year. Of course we tread through the normal calendar with everyone else,…
Life as we know it
(reposted from the HennHouse) We’ve traded late night, happy hour dates for early morning mini conferences on raising spiritually healthy special needs kids. And we wouldn’t change a thing… We’ve traded Big Ten athletic events for seventh grade basketball tryouts. And we wouldn’t change a thing… We’ve traded philosophical discussions about politics and superpowers for…
Advising New Parents
It’s that time of year again – time to buy school supplies, Fall clothes, and healthy snacks for the school lunch box. It’s time to pay the exorbitant school fees for our children’s FREE education. And it’s time for parents of children with disabilities to see if they will face more battles with their school…
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