Originally Posted by DeeDee
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Clarification: From Emotions to Advocacy is about how to get from the lost, desperate feeling of seeing your kid go down the drain to making change that helps.

That's how I took it, I skipped a step in my communication. smile I've been feeling so emotionally overwhelmed, and my orientation is toward emotional content, that I've focused on the wrong pieces, I think. It's been a colossal waste of time trying to influence the teacher's empathy by "painting a picture." I have to get out of that mode and into facts.