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Date: 15 October 2005 10:15:20
A lovely long chat with Tiddles' teacher yesterday, negotiating a reduction in homework due to his sleeping problems. The school are being very helpful - and it's reminded them, the teacher tells me, of the fact that their pupils are still children who do need chance to do things other than school work, so it may have benefited more than just him.
It was good to exchange stories, comparing his behaviour at home and his behaviour at school, and giving us each a better insight to the "whole child". I was reassured. "He is getting better," she said. "I can see some progress in his organisational skills!" I waited, on tenterhooks. "He no longer leaves his books strewn all over the desk when he leaves the room," she informed me. Wow... now that is amazing. "No, now he gathers them all up and moves them away........ and leaves them strewn over the worktop at the side of the classroom instead. But we have to celebrate these little steps :-D "
One small step - he's asked me if I'll buy him the book they're reading in school because he wants to get on with it and the class are not really interested. Amazing!
In other news, Smudgelet is proper poorly - with a sore throat and cough so bad that he no longer has any voice to cough with and consequently sounds like a cat bringing up a hairball. He woke me up at 3 a.m. to inform me he'd lost his voice. I was very sympathetic... it was only the fourth time he'd woken me, after all. Poor Smudgelet. He's curled up now in my bed...... well, in my duvet on the sofa... and sleeping fitfully. Mustn't catch it, though. And mustn't let Dad catch it either.
Now that my sister J has gone home and all's gone back to normal, depression and anger over his op has now hit Dad. He's declared that if it doesn't take place next week, he'll refuse it. This was triggered by a standard comment on the date-confirmation-letter that non-attendance without prior notice would result in being denied the operation and the GP being informed. He has taken this personally - convinced it was added onto the letter especially for him and unable to comprehend that the letter is a simple pro-forma with only the specific details added in before posting. Ho hum - I can see the next few weeks being a bit of a challenge. Good job Tiddles is getting himself more organised ;)