Originally Posted by polarbear
it is totally bringing back all those feelings of stress that take over when it feels like you have to constantly re-advocate, over and over.

Yes. This is my seventh year on the black-diamond run of all-out IEP advocacy parenting. There will be eleven more years of it after this. At least.

I'm finding that it's really hard to muster the energy to keep being positive, keep explaining, keep cheerleading, keep running my children to get all the extra accessories and therapies they need. AND deal with the people who assume that last year's problems may have magically gone away over the summer.

We're in a fairly good place at the moment (knocking on wood with all four limbs here), but it is still difficult.

Sympathies all round.

DeeDee