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Brandon, the tornado was bad. Luckily the damage was north and south of us for a change, we got hit a couple years ago. This tornado has killed at least 24, took out a college, the Memphis mall, and so much more. My favorite shopping town (Jackson) was hit really hard, all the schools there had to be closed and many businesses. It was on the yahoo news home page if you’re interested.
Today BB was horrid. There was an incident Tuesday that escalated, and shouldn’t have. BB and another child somehow made contact (none of the teachers saw this, it was right away when they were being dropped off, but both moms did), and the other boy started crying, he always cries in the morning. Well, BB’s mom said that the boy pushed BB, and BB pushed back. We believed her, but the other mom said only BB pushed. You know how moms are. Well, we left it at that, small incident, on with the day.
BB’s mom called up and chewed out the teacher (who wasn’t in the room at the time of the incident, but the assistant teacher and I were), accusing her of blaming her son for things that weren’t his fault and getting him in all sorts of trouble. (Remember, BB never got in trouble, we didn’t see it, and the parents who did couldn’t even give us one story.) The teacher told her such, but it didn’t seem to calm the mom. So now there is this tension, and BB has gone from doing so well to acting a lot like he did when I first got him. So much hard work completely undone.
I really hope we can get him back to behaving. Until then, I’ll just keep working on it.
So true, M, the mother’s energy has a monumental effect on the child’s mental state. I hope the mom realizes that this isn’t worth jeopordizing any progress. You’re committed, Bree, and I know that you can bring out his potential and work through this!
OK, today was better. Until someone shoved a ton of toilet paper in the toilet and flooded the bathroom in our room. Then we had to go to the other room to use theirs, and never regained control. The other assistant teacher is now officially gone, so ours went into that room because our only sub (who is great) has a son in there. And you know how kids act differently for their moms. Anyway, our class took full advantage of misbehaving. It was like herding cats today.
But, I do know that we will regain control just as soon as they realize that that the sub isn’t dumb enough to fall for their tricks. But until then, it will be interesting to see what other kinds of crap they pull. If I don’t see the entertainment value, I’ll go nuts!
OK, so today I found out that the teacher who just quit ran into BB’s mom out and about. Cool, except that for some reason she decided to inform Mrs. BB that our class did horrible things in our room and stirred up a ton of trouble. The bearer of this news won’t go into detail because it’s so bad. This ex-teacher hasn’t spent more than 3 minutes in our class ever, and has no idea of what we do. And to run her mouth to a mom already thinking we’re out to get her son! What an idiot!!!
I pour my heart and soul into my job, and it’s so much more than a job to me. This really hurt. How dare she. I feel like I’m swimming upstream. If all these adults in this boy’s life would just pull together and focus all our energy on helping him, he’d have a chance. As is, I really fear it’ll be a lot of detentions and special education, and he could go through school in a normal classroom if we all worked together.
Well, after missing a day and an hour, I know for sure that BB really misses me when I’m gone. I walked in at 9 this morning and he about attacked me. Big hugs, and lots of them all day. I feel better about that, I know we have a connection, and really, that’s all I can have. He said I was his best friend. After that, what adults say about the situation matters very little. He did his work, and we played.
I do believe in karma, and the ex-teacher will get hers. But I doubt I’ll be overly friendly if I do ever see her again.
Ugh, my scale hasn’t been very nice to me. I do feel swollen, gonna have to look for hidden salt in my diet, but I don’t think it accounts for the gain. The odd thing is that I lost an inch in my waist. Hubby says I look more toned (it wasn’t even a prompted compliment!), so I know I’m doing the right thing. Though it is hard to not get a bit sad with the number. I double checked it on my old spring scale.
I’m not freaking out, really. My question is, how concerned should I be? I know I need to weigh myself every morning, and it’s been fluctuating within a 3 pound range—daily. And with the other numbers going in the right direction, how much should I worry? Well, not worry, but how much attention should this part of the whole picture get? I don’t want to ignore a warning sign, but I don’t want to get hung up on something that is insignificant.
Amazing how writing things out puts it all into a perspective I can focus on. Any ideas?
The scale is just one number and is greatly influenced by water and salt. I would focus on how your clothes fit, how the inches are coming off, how good you look in the mirror(and in your picture). I wish I looked so good!
Thank you, Eileen! You have no idea how much better I feel now, just having someone else think the same helps so much. And thank you for the wonderful compliment. Trust me, you’ll get there. It took me a long time, but it was worth every step.
