I really am trying…

To get all my ‘oh and….’s out in one post, but you never know I could be back again later. (Especially as it’s Child of our Time tonight!)

But I wanted to add two things specifically.

Yesterday I phoned up and arranged this for the kids. We start on Friday for a trial lesson and if all goes well we will sign up for it. The woman I spoke to sounded really nice, not patronising, very understanding of different children having different needs and so on. She asked about Davies and school/nursery so I bit the bullet and said ‘well actually no, he’s Home Educated’ to which I got the amazing reply of ‘Oh is he. Well done! Do you know C*** then?’ I replied no and she continued ‘oh well she’s Home Educating her two boys. There’s quite a lot of you in Worthing isn’t there. Very brave, but well done!’ WOW 🙂 She is fine about Davies being there while Scarlett has her session and vice versa and they can go on Friday’s for a back to back session. Later on when Davies is happy with it his age group is unsupervised by parents who stay on the premises in a ‘waiting room’ with other parents and any other siblings while for Scarlett’s session parents participate but they are happy for older siblings to join in or sit at the side playing etc. Sounds a bit too good to be true TBH, but if it ticks off the boxes I need it to (gives him in particular a creative outlet, burns off some energy, allows them to seperate from each other a little (although not too much!), maybe makes them some friends, allows them to be introduced to group environments in a controlled and slow fashion and lastly is a good one to bring out to the LEA or anyone when questioned about stuff like that!) it’s fine by me 🙂

The other thing is that Davies has been really good today – he’s got every star on his chart and been really nice too, so the investment in being nice to each other has paid off 🙂 And a big thing too – while I was chatting to my friend in Lancing I sent him into the £ shop with a £ to buy a cereal holder (tupperware type thing). We watched him through the window go up to the counter and talk to the lady, say thank you and goodbye and come back all proud of himself. Very cute 🙂

Am in the process of trying out the photo thing as recommended to Joyce by Chris…may be test photos up later.