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Comment on Elsa and India by bullets | let unfold

bullets | let unfold — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:22:46 +0000

[...] now I’m getting really focused on a dog. Last year, we lost our beloved India. It was totally heartbreaking, and E and I both miss her still. A little while ago I realized [...]

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Resilience and Great Danes | let unfold — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:04:56 +0000

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Comment on i’ve packed it up by susan

susan — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:36:41 +0000

the email clicky button isn’t working for me. I do want to follow you if I can, though.

Comment on i’ve packed it up by luluflaneur

luluflaneur — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:34:48 +0000

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Comment on flight by kate

kate — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 17:50:48 +0000

Gorgeous–courage, faith and trust.

Comment on a horse of a different color by pinguinainitalia

pinguinainitalia — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 19:47:47 +0000

“Gifted children have emotional as well as cognitive needs that vary from the norm. They are more intense, sensitive, perfectionistic, easily frustrated, questioning of authority, and reactive to criticism than their average peers.”

This describes my son to a T as well and he is not ADHD nor do I think he is gifted. He was disorthographic for the first two years in elementary school (couldn’t transform phonemes into graphemes), but a good language therapist helped him tremendously. Italian is easy to learn compared to English or French, but still Abe arrived in Italy at 3 1/2 years with an Ethiopian dialect and Amharic under his belt…he is excelling in school… I wouldn’t worry about homework…. but that perfectionist part sometimes gets in the way of getting homework done….

Great for Elsa and great for you…so glad there is so much improvement! Enjoy her … Abe turns 10 soon and that pre-tween thing I hear so much about is rearing it’s unnerving head.

Comment on a horse of a different color by christycanuck

christycanuck — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 02:50:04 +0000

Hello, I’m going to attempt to email you about the gifted thing.

Comment on a horse of a different color by Nif

Nif — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:42:12 +0000

I have a big, goofy grin on my face (nowhere near as cute as Elsa’s smile!) reading your post! I can only imagine how the Dr’s words made you feel! Go Elsa, go Mum!!

Comment on a horse of a different color by Scooping it up

Scooping it up — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:50:46 +0000

this gives me hope. regulation and PTSD are our biggest problems. I really hope that in a few years we are seeing that horse of a different color, because he’s under there somewhere.

Comment on a horse of a different color by habeshachild

habeshachild — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:58:03 +0000

Very good points, R… I am terrified of homework!
She is very happy where she is now. I am challenged by how far away the school is from home. I am certainly considering keeping her there. The teachers are wonderful and the community seems tight. I feel out of it because I’m working full time and so can’t really connect with the other moms. But that’s a different problem.