It has been SO hard on Mom and pretty stressful for dd. R
Hey R -
I love everything CFK posts, even when we don't agree, I love to drink in her wisdom.
Little comments like the above tip me in the direction of 'let it ride.' If you had written 'It has been SO hard on DD, and pretty stressful for me.' Then I think I'd be leaning in the other direction.
My guess about you, R, is that you are more of a 'don't just stand there, do something' kind of person (like me) and are having growing pains learning to 'not just do something, stand there!'
I might be clouded in that I'm going through one of those periods with my DS13 right this very minute, and all my 'do something' neurons are pleading with me to 'do something.'
(He is a freshman in high school, summer birthday + single grade skip, all honors classes, and pretty well accomidated academically - although he complains bitterly that the kids don't 'get' the metaphores - but socially he is sad and lonely quite a bit lately, after a great year socially last year. I hate seeing him wishing for something to do or somewhere to go, but not able to get anything going. Should I send him off to boarding school? Truth is that every freshman boy that I remember in HS is just plain miserable socially unless they have a sport's team to be on. That's just the way it is. So, I'm trying to breath through it - Yuck!)
You might have made a mistake by letting the school talk you into putting her with the 2nd graders at first. We try things and we make mistakes. Some stuff we'll never know. But that doesn't nescessarily mean that correcting the mistake right now is the best course of action. You are in my prayers and I am here to hold your hand if that is what's needed.
Grinity
