Tag:school
Big Kid Back to School = Starting Over
This year we started middle school (and high school) and it’s a whole new ball game. I’ve been going to back to school teacher conferences for years, and I can’t remember the last time that one of them scared me. This year I was terrified. As I drove to the middle school, my stomach was …
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Lifting my Gag Order, or Last Year was a Travesty
This is another post that I wrote at the very beginning of the summer. I have edited it significantly for chronological context and ease of reading, but I want my readers to know that my mindset at the time of actually writing this post was months ago. Last year wasn’t a good year. That’s not …
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Back to School: Game Day
It’s here. The big day. All the planning and preparing is down to this. We’re back to school. I won’t really know if everything we did made enough difference until the end of the week (probably)*. Here’s to hoping. I had mixed feelings about the whole thing. Part of me is ready for the structure …
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Back to School: The Coaches Meeting
This is one of the biggest steps in preparing to go back to school. It’s something that I agonize over when it begins to consume my mind weeks before it actually happens. It’s time to meet the teacher. Last year the bar was raised to the moon. Realistically, I know that we will never have …
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Back to School: Scrimmages
I didn’t post last week because we were on vacation—Sorry, not sorry! I have decided to turn my back to school posts into a little bit of a series though, so I am hoping to post twice this week. My last post was about easing out of summer and into a routine. Going on vacation …
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Back to School: The Warm-Up
Summer is never quite what I expect. It used to be relaxed and breezy—a chance to go to the pool everyday and do strange science experiments with the boys. They’ve outgrown the science experiments and our lives have gotten too hectic. When the boys were younger, not much changed from season to season (including the …
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Special Ed, Occupational Therapy, and IEP Woes
I know this is a hot button topic for a lot of people. Usually our story doesn’t look like most of the others you hear or read about. We’ve had a pretty good experience overall with the special ed process. Except for one part—occupational therapy. Yoshi went into school with an educational diagnosis of autism …
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