Well. What can I say? If I had written this blog on Tuesday it would have made for a depressing read! Tuesday was a bad day! If there was anything at all S could refuse to co-operate with then he certainly did! My patience struggled big time and at one point I simply had to excuse myself from the room to calm myself down! We had to have serious words as I can no longer take this day after day, hour after hour. I think S actually got a bit of a shock to see me so emotional and certainly the threat of returning to school was enough for his attitude to improve! I hate threatening him with school. It is quite obviously a distressing thought for him but I have tried to explain to him that the constant moaning from him is doing our relationship no good at all and that he needs to be more considerate if his mum. In saying all that in the forefront of my mind is the fact that I am saying all this to an autistic child and whether what I am doing is really quite unfair and that I should be more adult and carer minded. Having said all that our relationship is an honest one and I have always believed that if you are honest with your children about hoe you feel (obviously there will be some limits) then they will be honest with you.
Anyway, from Wednesday onwards it has been like teaching s different child! Today a bit of grumpiness definitely returned but he has had 3 productive days! Despite having a rubbish day we have had 4 pretty good days. We have looked at fractions this week including a fair bit of work on his times tables. His mental arithmetic and tables I don't think are very solid so I am trying to get him looking at them every day. We have learnt how to find fractions of amounts and equivalent fractions having spent Monday revising what we did in October. In reading we have started stage 11 books in ORT and he is loving them. We did some comprehension on the first 3 chapters and have had good discussions. We have looked at indexes , homophones and synonyms and I ordered him a great (cheap) child's thesaurus which we have started to use. We have done some story writing. S didn't really like my idea but was so enthusiastic about a football story that I let him write it. It was the most he has ever written and he really enjoyed writing which is a first! We have agreed we are going to make a whole newspaper this term with a set that granny gave him. Finally we also looked at wind and water power. We attempted to make a windmill which was a disaster but today made a water generator which he absolutely loved and proudly showed off to everyone later. That ended the week on a real high! Don't really think he gets the energy concept yet but we'll get there.
So not bad overall. The encouragement from friends and family has been crucial for me this week as I was struggling so much. I have had so many other things on my mind too which are not really helping "clear my head" so it is such a help to know that there are some folks out there not waiting for me to trip up at the first hurdle but really praying for S and me as we work together.
In the midst of all this we started gymnastics, went to swimming lessons and had all the other normal goings on! I now have a sick twin so must go and resume mummy duties.
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