Thank you for your patience!! Again!!! Getting everyone ready for another school year has never seem more like a mammoth task than this year! I am not really sure why, I have done this whole 'back to school' thing at least 11 years in a row. Not counting the pre children teaching years.
This year it seemed more of an effort. Mainly because I have really enjoyed the break in routine. Getting back to homework and lost PE kit and letters and emails and just general stuff filled me with dread. Don't get me wrong I am not an evangelical mother who claims every minute with her children is like manna from heaven. I admit there have been moments of all out war in our house, over really important things like who looked sideways at someone etc etc. There have been moments when I have locked myself in the loo with an illegal Mars Bars and silently screamed! Certainly by the time school started we were all just a tiny bit sick of each others company. Harsh maybe but true. We all loved each other but still...
Yet despite my need to get my children back to a routine I was also dreading it. You see as I said in my last post Moglet Number 2 had been so relaxed over the holidays. No over tired outbursts, no worries about losing things. He was really chilled out, happy to chat, talking about his plans for the future with no barriers in his way. And deep down I knew that as soon as we got back to school all the barriers would creep back in. The need to sit still, the things to remember, the writing, the recording, the remembering, the uniform, the over tiredness, the inability to sleep because of the over tiredness. The difference in my Moglet between the holidays and the school term was marked. In the school holidays I was interacting and communicating with him, not organising, nagging and marshalling. I was a Mother not a Drill Sergeant.
And the other thing I was dreading was having to explain 'IT' allover again, 'IT' being Dyspraxia. I know some of will be thinking "What is there to explain ?" Moglet 2 has a diagnosis, an IEP, a support plan. It's a given that everyone is on board right? If only!!! You see every year, every change of teacher you have to explain it again. You have to hope that people have read the IEP; hope they have understood the IEP and are able to generalise and apply the IEP. If you get a good teacher you hold on for grim death and are for ever thankful. By the time you get to Secondary School there are so many variables and so many teachers there is always a knot in your stomach on the first day. Always waiting for the first email that you need to write or that you receive. And once again, our school is a good one, we have good links and open communication. We are lucky but it still isn't easy, still not enough people 'get' Dyspraxia. I mean really get it; see the bigger picture, understand how far reaching it really it and what a constant effect it has on so many areas of my Moglets life.
So this blog is for all those parents who felt their stomach churn and knot on the first day of school. Who know the children that appear in the classroom may well be far removed from the children who pop up when they are relaxed and coping at home. I know how you feel. Here's to Half Term!!
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