Fresh start and more

5:40pm 3/11/13

Right now I am at Matthew's counseling appt, so I figured I would work on a new entry for everyone ^-^ I am just a writing machine today lol

So earlier today I had a meeting with the boys' teachers and their lead teacher to basically say that I am going to follow certain rules and things so I can enroll them in school in the fall. So today starts a fresh new start on everything and that is a great feeling. Not that the kids were not doing school work, but the internet is so horrible that I can't get on there every day to log in their work. But ti's good to know that the school and teachers are there to help us all out. It's like I told the teachers, I have to do everything I can to keep them homeschooled at this point. The boys do NOT want to go back to public school, especially Matthew, after everything they went through. Matthew was being bullied from Kindergarten to 3rd grade, he finally had enough (he would tell the teachers and other staff, but they would say if they didn't see it, they can't do anything about it), so he started to stand up for himself and he ended up getting in trouble (even though the teachers and staff never saw him hit the person) and they labeled him as the bully instead. Matthew was starting to get suicidal thoughts because of it. I know some people don't agree with my choice of homeschool because they need social interaction, but I also can't put my child through that again.

With Jackson, he needs more one on one to be able to understand things, he also needs to be able to get up and move around (other than reccess) due to his ADHD. The teachers had him labeled as a trouble maker cause he was always trying to get up, move around and talk to other kids when he should have been doing schoolwork, they also thought that he was lazy because he was not understanding somethings and they refused to word it another way for him to understand. Now yes I know not all schools are the same way, but I also don't want to take the risk of it happening again and I want them to get a good education. My kids mean everything to me and I will make sure they are safe and getting what they need.

 I am in the lobby of Matthew's counseling office (which is also my old work as well) waiting for him to be done and there is this couple out here with their son, who is about a year old or so, and they are letting him just totally run wild and tear things up. It's parents like that, that irritated me to no end. They have no respect for anyone or anything and so in the end they are teaching their child the samething. I understand that the child is young, but you have to do your part as the parent and discipline them as well (and I don't mean spanking, but at least get off your butt, go and get them and tell them that's not right). My children knew when I say no in a certain tone they had better not do it again and that's still how it is to this day. I, by all means, am not saying that they are bad parents, but they are what I call "lazy" parents. They have another baby who is about 5 months old or so and the baby leaked through her clothes, so the mom changed her (and she has a change of clothes for the baby, as she told her boyfriend that she did) but brought the baby out in only a diaper. When her boyfriend asked her why the baby was naked, she said because she didn't feel like dressing her, like really, it's 46 degrees outside and very cold. When we left, she still hadn't dressed the baby, had the baby sitting in the car seat, and just put a light blanket over the baby. I was so upset that she did that with the baby.