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chaos_sl said:
She's fine. Lately a little worse, but we've got a big project at work and I am pulling like 12-13 hour days every day and barely see her, so I think that has a lot to do with it. But she's been in her new school with the modified class setting and they say she is doing great. They say she is now going to a normal classroom for an hour a day, which is huge. She even made a friend. It makes me so sad that she doesn't have any friends. She doesn't seem to want friends, which I think is a defense mechanism thing but who knows. But overall she is doing much better. Took her to my oldest daughter's school today for a book fair, she threw a huge fit because she only got one book and she saw other kids with multiple books. I managed to talk to her and calm her down pretty much immediately, then she walked home with me and is now in bed, happily reading her shitty barbie book. A few months ago she would still be in the throes of the fit, so this is incredible progress imo.

Her school wants her to get therapy, which i am fine with, she needs coping skills etc. But the psychologist won't return our phone calls or emails, and we have limited options who take our insurance in this area. So frustrating, because I can't make the woman respond to the goddamn email.
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I feel you on the friends thing. My son is 9 (10 in a few weeks) and has been in SE with an IEP since he was 6. It breaks my heart that he doesn't really have any friends. We hear about kids that he interacts with during our conferences but up until a couple of years ago we couldn't even get him to acknowledge that he did so, even with prompting. Hell, it was only last year when he finally stopped telling us he did "nothing" at school and actually started to provide details. Last night he had to do a writing assignment about a friend, but the only person he could think of was his sister. I asked about a couple of kids we know about and he just shook his head at me and said he didn't know anything about them.

I will say this though, to give you a sense of how important these programs are, just in case you still have any doubts. Since he's been in the program we have seen massive improvement in everything. His physical age is unfortunately a couple of years ahead of his mental and emotional age. He's never going to be in a position where his actions and emotions and general education will be the same as the kids he's going to school with. But he is so far ahead of where he was when this all started. It works. Keep at it.
 
meStevo

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The idea of going down that path is a painful prospect to me, as my biggest goal is continuity in his education. I was fortunate enough to go to 1 elementary school, the closest jr. high and the nearest high school before some school zone restructuring led me to go elsewhere (ended up at a magnet school for computer design with some of my best friends, so it all worked out). A few of my friends I've known for all but a few years of my life and we hang out every other weekend still, if not more frequently. My wife has nothing like that. Just want to provide that opportunity for my son, but if this is the best thing for him so be it, I'm all in. Whatever he needs. I'm sure I'm overrating my experience a bit.

Related to all of that, got an appointment and paperwork from the school district this week. Taking him down on the 6th to be assessed. I guess w/ this program they come and pick up the kids in a school bus every day too. Our daycare says they have 6 different busses come by in the morning due to programs like this.Child Find | Student Services Division | CCSD

Son is doing better in school, and even w/ bad tantrums at home a few minutes after he apologizes (we've never made that a thing, just something he's started doing) for the thing that kicked off the tantrum or timeout. Timeout generally consists of being put in his room and someone having to sit in front of the door. It's still bizarre how he can go from hitting and kicking to 'hey, my car in on my truck, that's so silly!'
 
Gavinmad

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If yall ever have any doubts about those programs, just imagine your kid turning out like me which is what happens when those kinds of problems aren't diagnosed and treated during childhood.
 
chaos

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I used to doubt it all the time, I didn't think the problems were as bad as they really were and I didn't think the programs were really helping. But man, I love the program now. Holy shit. I can't imagine what she would have been like years from now if we didn't have the help we have now.
 
Gavinmad

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chaos_sl said:
I can't imagine what she would have been like years from now if we didn't have the help we have now.
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Living in your basement making angry posts on an internet forum full of degenerate weirdos who didn't really think she was a woman?
 
Izo

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Well, he has the avatar of my 3 yo girl. I had to watch this bs MLP with her to figure out what it is she wants for Christmas. I find out it's Gavin's pony she likes. Gawd damnit...
 
Larnix

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So I am not sure if this should have its own thread or just keep here. I would love to hear what your kid has to say..

For example Today my almost 3 year old son said "God Dammit Santa now you woke up your sister" as he was giving a plastic Santa drink of water. He has a younger sister and my wife admitted that she says that often to him
 
iannis

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sounds like at some point he heard one of you say to the other, "God damn it ___, now you woke up ___"

HE LEARNED IT FROM WATCHING YOU, DAD.
 
Joeboo

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Yep, my 2 year old went through a phase were everytime he would spill something he would yell DAMNIT

Because that's what we generally do. Have to start being careful, once kids start talking they will mimic anything they hear(especially if they hear it repeatedly)
 
Falstaff

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Yeah my wife said ah shit tonight when she dropped something on the ground and my 2.5 year old immediately repeated it to our dog like three times in a row.
 
meStevo

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my son says 'really?' whenever something is spilled or his sister does something out of line, lol, a copy of our usual reaction.
 
iannis

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friend of mines husband had trained her kid. Whenever someone said wal-mart he said, "Yay! Wetbacks!" in a little 2 year old voice.

I thought that was funny as hell, she was embarassed.
 
Larnix

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Yeah my wife admitted that she is guilty of saying that. I just found it humorous that he said it to a plastic Santa while trying to give him a drink of water. At this age he does pick up whatever we say.

in my younger days I dated a girl that had 2 children(toddlers) for awhile and the 3 of us were headed to see my grandparents for the day. During the drive I had said something along the line of you guys better be cool and not be a couple of bitches. When we got there my grandma asked one if he was a good boy and he replied in a very serious tone. No were are a couple of bitches.
 
Tuco

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I am afraid of what will happen when my kid starts repeating my mannerisms and make everything I say seem old and/or childish. It's like, you've taken so much, child, do you really need to take that from me too?
 
Noodleface

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My cousin (who is now a surgeon at tufts) said weird shit. He was a genius at a young age. Him, my father, my uncle and me went to McDonald's. I think he was 2 at the time and I was 10 or 11. He got some happy meal toy and my dad said "can you say race car?"

His smart ass reply was "yes, can you say anal sphincter?" kid was 2 haha.

We hit the 8 month sleep regression hard. Friday he didn't call asleep until 430 am, it was fucking awful. My wife was at work until 330am and she took over when she came home. Last night he pulled the same shit but finally went down at 2am. Hoping this doesn't last too long because I'm a zombie right now. Also he's gotten into the habit of shitting himself while he's asleep. 50/50 chance of blow out.
 
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