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Man... I am totally at a loss so I'm just throwin' this out there in case someone has some ideas.
My daughter is 8yrs. old and in the third grade. She has been an awesome student in school until this year.
She has never had a problem focusing or completing anything, she has never mis-behaved, she's always had an attitude though. Gee... wonder where she gets that? [img]/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img]
Now, some of this I know comes from our lifestyle. Her Dad is not home very often and we have an extremely stressful life, not angry/yelling/not getting along unhealthy... just a lot of demands from the military.
Anyway...
She is going to fail the third grade, I just know it.
She can't concentrate on anything for more than a nanosecond. She stares off into space, she can't complete anything. She constantly worries about every little thing. Everything!
She can never get to her point when talking... yadda yadda.
I don't get it at all. How can she go from a straight A student who's completely on the ball, to a failing student who acts like she's losing her mind? It's not that she doesn't understand her schoolwork, just the opposite. She's bored out of her gourd. She simply won't do her classwork.
Keith's youngest sister was like this, but he's so much older than she is and wasn't living at home so he doesn't know how his parents helped her.
Calling them up to ask them is not an option.
I am TOTALLY freaked out about the thought of medicating her with that Ritalin type bullshit. Okay, maybe its not entirely bullshit, a girfriend of mine put her daughter on it and it has been awesome for her.
I've tried my own therapies according to my holistic profession, they are helpful but they are hard to take for a child.
Anyway, cutting to the chase... I just want her to be able to succeed in school and be able to actually function.
She simply does not give a damn despite the fact that she has an awesome teacher.
Keith and I are extremely laid back parents, not the hovering-pushy-exalted-expectation-types.
We are both losing our minds having to constantly harp on her to get moving along. [img]/images/graemlins/help.gif[/img]
Half of me thinks that once we are out of this situation and her Dad is out of the USAF and we can settle down, things will be better for her. She's in the third grade and she's already been to three elementary schools in two different states.
She's a very emotional child. Both of my children crawl into their caves when their Dad is gone, it breaks my heart. They don't know any different either.
Thanks for letting me rant. I've reigned it in considerably, but this little bit helps.
My daughter is 8yrs. old and in the third grade. She has been an awesome student in school until this year.
She has never had a problem focusing or completing anything, she has never mis-behaved, she's always had an attitude though. Gee... wonder where she gets that? [img]/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img]
Now, some of this I know comes from our lifestyle. Her Dad is not home very often and we have an extremely stressful life, not angry/yelling/not getting along unhealthy... just a lot of demands from the military.
Anyway...
She is going to fail the third grade, I just know it.
She can't concentrate on anything for more than a nanosecond. She stares off into space, she can't complete anything. She constantly worries about every little thing. Everything!
She can never get to her point when talking... yadda yadda.
I don't get it at all. How can she go from a straight A student who's completely on the ball, to a failing student who acts like she's losing her mind? It's not that she doesn't understand her schoolwork, just the opposite. She's bored out of her gourd. She simply won't do her classwork.
Keith's youngest sister was like this, but he's so much older than she is and wasn't living at home so he doesn't know how his parents helped her.
Calling them up to ask them is not an option.
I am TOTALLY freaked out about the thought of medicating her with that Ritalin type bullshit. Okay, maybe its not entirely bullshit, a girfriend of mine put her daughter on it and it has been awesome for her.
I've tried my own therapies according to my holistic profession, they are helpful but they are hard to take for a child.
Anyway, cutting to the chase... I just want her to be able to succeed in school and be able to actually function.
She simply does not give a damn despite the fact that she has an awesome teacher.
Keith and I are extremely laid back parents, not the hovering-pushy-exalted-expectation-types.
We are both losing our minds having to constantly harp on her to get moving along. [img]/images/graemlins/help.gif[/img]
Half of me thinks that once we are out of this situation and her Dad is out of the USAF and we can settle down, things will be better for her. She's in the third grade and she's already been to three elementary schools in two different states.
She's a very emotional child. Both of my children crawl into their caves when their Dad is gone, it breaks my heart. They don't know any different either.
Thanks for letting me rant. I've reigned it in considerably, but this little bit helps.
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