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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (66162)	12/12/1999 11:32:00 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

That is very gratifying to hear. And thank for making the point about this being non-political. And I must admit I DO get lots of praise from people. My children's teacher's love me, my children's friends love me, the other parents appreciate me- so I can't say that I personally don't get the respect I deserve. When my disabled son was 2 1/2 and first underwent testing they told me he might be uneducable. This was horribly depressing but we didn't stop teaching him- and we kept the level of verbal communication very high. When he was tested again at 6 he was almost at grade level- now he is testing above grade level. A lot of this is due to his own compensation- but some of it is due to me. I take him to special play groups where he can work on pragmatics with a specially trained aide. I make sure he does all his exercises- and I have tried to get him excited about reading. My son read 128 books this summer to finish the library's reading program- guess who took him to the library several times a week to do that? And they had crafts every Friday that we went to too. I think my reward is really in seeing my children develop. It is NICE to get outside recognition- but no mother who has made a difference in her children's lives really needs that- even if EVERYONE in the world said what I am doing is worthless I would know it is not. I will never do anything as important as what I am doing now. I try to remember that every day. That said I hate to see people without children making pronouncements on child rearing. I had some firm ideas that immediately fell by the way side as soon as I had my children. Children change everything.