Friday 11 September 2009

First week over .............

I don't know what I was worrying about - as you pointed out to me - he was fine at school - loved it - behaved impeccably - thank goodness.

Next week he's on afternoons and after school club and then he goes full time.

My clever 15 year old did her English GCSE a year early and got a B for Language and an A for Literature. It's given her self-confidence and enormous boost. I want to buy her something as a little prize for doing so well but can't think what to get her. The only thing that springs to mind at the moment is some kind of charm bracelet, then everytime she passes an exam I can get her another charm. The in thing at the moment is those Pandora bracelets - might get her one of those.

Sunday 6 September 2009

I'm having a moral crisis at the moment.

My lovely son, Alex, starts school tomorrow for the first time. Not that he's not used to being with other children all day as we both work full time, so he has been going to nursery five days a week. So why do I feel like I'm failing him?

We've arranged for him to attend the breakfast club at the school, a really good one with a wonderful person in charge. Then I'll be picking him up at lunchtime and taking him back to his old nursery for the afternoon. For the first two weeks he is only doing half days at school.

For the second week he'll be at nursery in the morning and school plus after school club (with the same nice person) in the afternoon.

He's already had a taster session at the school and knows his teacher's name and can't wait for Monday so that he can go.

Recently he's been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome which explains a lot of his behavioural issues. Maybe, that's why I'm feeling so guilty !!! I'm actually having bad dreams now about leaving him somewhere, going back for him and not being able to find him. How bad is that?

Still I suppose once he's got his first two weeks out of the way we will be able to settle into a routine. There's nothing wrong with his intelligence, in fact he is extremely intelligent and I think he will thrive at school. It's his behaviour that can be an issue as his Asperger's means that he doesn't interact well socially. He has loads of friends and knows everybody, but all games and interaction have to be on his terms. So I can see some conflicts coming up at school !!! Luckily the school are aware of his problems so I'm hoping they will have some strategies in place for dealing with it.

Oh God, I'm waffling on here. Can you tell I'm nervous? Alex isn't, bless him. He thinks it is all a wonderful adventure - maybe I'd better go with that.

I think I need a new knitting challenge - to add to the several I already have - to distract me. I've signed up for Debbie Abrahams mystery blanket club which she will be signing on for in October and starts in January 2010.

Wish me luck.