Month: September 2012

I see a phasing out of parent/teacher face to face communication. Sure, email is handy. Except, when it’s not. Sometimes, emails go with out a response. We over look them. We (not me, of course) ignore them. Another problem with email is you can’t read tone (unless you are some sort of psychic). In these days of holding pattens for kids in the am before class, and drive through pick up lines (just a heads up, you’d better be there 45 minutes before release or you are at the BACK of the line) there is little to no parent teacher interaction. Somehow, it also eliminates parent/parent interaction. “how’s kindergarten treating little Susie?”. “Just fine. How’s Fred doing with sight words?”. These little interactions help parents (at least this one) feel connected. Now, it takes a formal meeting to get “face time” with a teacher. When so much could be done with a “Hey, I have a quick question about Fred’s math paper. Do you have a minute after you get the kids to their respective cars?”. Please don’t complain about lack of parent involvement (and helicopter mamas who send emails almost daily because i (I mean they) cant ask a quick question) when it’s been made more and more difficult to “see” the teacher.

Parent/teacher parent/parent communication is vital. Communication, the face to face kind, is vital in life. So, as I blog remotely, pretend we are chatting over coffee and are have real face time.

Hugs,
K

A friend asked me once if I’d ever noticed fever changing my little spectrumite. I’d not given it a lot of
thought at the time. The boy has had fever of unknown origin for the past two years now. His new normal temp is 100.5. Nothing outrageous. Nothing that changes him. Then, this. Sickness. Virus, maybe strep, still to be determined. High fever. 103, 104, down to 102 with medicine. He’s a different child. He wants to cuddle, he’s CALM, he seems to listen. I obviously don’t want him to be sick. I suppose fever changes all of us. Just wondering if other moms of kids on the spectrum had noticed similar goings on. I remember this friend telling me that moms and dads of kids who weren’t as high functioning, would try to induce fever because of these differences. I can understand that if the only time your child was verbal and communicative was when he had fever. So, I guess I’m saying, in my up too early, sleep is way off schedule way, fever can be a blessing. It’s our body’s way to healing, it gives mamas some extra cuddles, it gives some kids the need to cuddle and communicate and express. So, fever. I don’t want you here for long. But thanks for the healing (and the snuggle time).

Xoxo
K