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Hayley,

lump in my throat reading what your lad said

Maria xx

the hardest year of bring up your child is always


****the next next year****

They play me like a fiddle Maria.. but what child doesnt..lol

I must say Rose when I read that your lad was home educated I did think about his social skills and things like team buliding but as you said he gets it in after school activities....and I thought it must be hard being together all the time as well.

Can be hard being together Hayley, especially when we are both stubborn lol ... it does curtail what I can do to an extent, but then again I never have to rush back from wherever to collect him from school lol, and if we want to go away for days to places of interest we can.

yep do you incorperate that into his learning like field study trips...to the musuem and stuff..

Edited....btw I am just asking this out of interest not questioning your ability as a mother or as his teacher.

Rose I can understand it is more pressurised if you are educating at home. A friend of mine has done the same for her 2 kids, very successfully.

I was asking Mel a genuine question??

we 've done a lot of that Hayley, the whole world is an 'education' lol... it worries a lot of people that there isn't a 'classroom' atmosphere as such, but I think you learn far more about most things by 'doing' .

Whirley I dont find Mark too much trouble {he's 15} because my Dad and brother are also autistic so I have grown up with it Mark is very similar to Dad so I find some {not all} of the strategies can be used on both as autism is untreatable n incurabe its a case of learning how to manage the condition Mark has never seen his autism as a disability he has talepes so when he thinks disability this is what he sees

I do find my little one hard at times she has complex needs and I some times feel I can do nothing but she is learnin to adapt to her environment and we go wth her needs x

edit soz took a while ~~I was on a different thread

Thanks Mel, I was just wondering how you coped, as I know you said a while back you had disabled kids, so I assumed one, maybe 2 were your teenage kids............thanks for replying.............sounds like your doing a great job!!!

all the best..

Whirley

Thank you x like I said the rewards out weigh all else

Added twice soz ~ Rose this is a fab thread x