Random stuff

We took Gael to Child Find last week to have him reassessed. The reassessment took four hours and we weren't allowed inside the room while the tests were ongoing. We are praying for good results. We will know in a month's time in a conference where we should both be there, invite Gael's teacher and Gael's yaya too. Thank you to teacher Candice and her sister, Ate Mai, for being so generously kind. We hope to see you soon.

A colleague from Virlanie Foundation just gave me a treatment plan she designed herself for ADHD. Thank you, thank you.

There are days when Gael seems to be behaving quite well. He pays attention in school. He's nice to his brother. He listens to instructions. He eats on his own. He packs away his toys. But there are days that it seems like we're taking several steps backward - is this to be expected?

We use a behavior chart at home to reward him for good behavior and penalize him when he acts up. It used to work before. But since we tend to treat him out every time his daddy is here (we went out to watch transformers, gone out to eat in Jollibee one day when I was craving for sundae, watched ice age 3) even though he has not reached the pre-agreed number of stars yet, the behavior chart doesn't seem to be working anymore. we have to be more consistent with this.

We are seriously thinking of homeschooling Gael next year. All he likes in his present school is the company of kids his age but he isn't learning anything new. And I guess that's part of the reason he is so makulit in school - he already knows the things the teachers are teaching. He pays attention to me when I teach him at night, and our study hours are not limited to looking over his school books anymore, because he really is bored with their current lessons. I am stuck in a dilemma as to whether we should skip a few chapters and go to the next lessons, but that would also mean that when the teachers get to teach those lessons, mabobore na naman si Gael. So next year, I am homeschooling him. And maybe Araw will be homeschooled too. I have just learned that homeschool providers have clubs and a wealth of extra curricular activities - these serve the socialization needs of the kids. I just hope that I'd have enough time to do homeschooling well.

Arn has recently agreed to make the village work for him too. We hope we get nice results.