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Teeter Totter ~ Finding a Balance Between Me-Hood and Motherhood
Gender: female Date of Birth: January 01, 1973 Member Since: September 11, 2007 Last Signed In: November 20, 2009 Blog Views: 14722 Send To A Friend Sign Guestbook Add as a Friend
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Waiting Rooms & Road Maps
I’m sitting in the waiting room of the Developmental Pediatric Neuro Psychologist; Waiting for three hours while she assesses my son. He’ll undergo a battery of different tests to get a clear picture of how his brain works, what he’s good at and what he’s not so good at. Then there are the things that his brain just won’t be able to do at all. I wonder what they’ll be. It’s important to know your weaknesses, so you can use your strengths to balance them out. To know what you’re good at… and not so good at is an important road map in life. Fortunately, my son loves these tests. He’s a very logical kind of kid and just as interested to see how his own brain works. I think he views them as levels in a video game and is always excited to push the bar and see how far he can go in each assessment. The DPNP (please don’t make me spell it out each time!) is very kind and good with him. I have a good feeling about the whole assessment and am very glad that we’re having it done. If I could go back in time and change choices I made and people I trusted when it came to my son’s education and development, I would without hesitation. The school district was shockingly un-supportive, un-prepared and un-educated when it came to children like my son. If they were fully-disabled, they were wonderful. But for higher functioning children, they were lost. Too often I assumed they knew what was best when it came to his interventions and education and well… I have 10 years of wasted speech therapy with over 20 different therapists to prove that they didn’t. I try not to focus too much on the past however. I savor each day and do my best to prepare him for his future; hopefully a future that includes a road map to help him through the unknown. 6 comments from 4 users
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posted by
creatress
on Jul 9, 2009 at 07:04 PM
What a compliment! Thank you Kelli. It's hard work, but he's a wonderful kid and I'd do anything for him. posted by
kellimwheeler
on Jul 9, 2009 at 12:12 PM
Way to look forward and continue to be your son's advocate! It seems to me you're doing all the right things to give ManCub the ability to be a confident young man in his ability to adapt his world to everyone else's perception of it.
posted by
creatress
on Jul 2, 2009 at 05:24 PM
It was 3 hours on Tuesday and 3 hours today. We have a meeting two weeks from today to go over the results. I'm sure it went great. I'm suspecting what he was good at, he was great at. What he was bad at, he was terrible at. It's a question of how terrible though and how good. I'll blog more when I know. Thanks for thinking of us! posted by
patiencengrace
on Jul 2, 2009 at 01:38 PM
How did it go? It will be wonderful to have a "map" to help guide you. posted by
creatress
on Jul 2, 2009 at 11:15 AM
Awww, what a sweet thing to say! Vice versa as well. I can't imagine any other kid being such a great fit for me.
posted by
LoriA
on Jul 2, 2009 at 09:43 AM
The gods were smiling on your son when they entrusted you to be his mom :)
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