I have had to be an advocate for my kids and their educations from day one.....
My son with his hearing disabilities, from age 8 months to age 4 due to scaring from ear infections and then a set of faulty tubes. He required years of speech therapy. Thank goodness his ears healed and his hearing is fine now, but during the time he was learning to speak the problems with his hearing caused his speech to be garbled because that is what he was hearing.
My daughter with her learning disabilities, from age 2 and a half then having to forge our way through the school system with her diabetes at age 10. Getting her 504 plan in place and enforceing her rights under the Americans with disabilities act. I have had to go into that school on I don't know how many occasions and start raising holy heck.... I am sure that the principal and superintendent are grateful that she is graduating.... But I had to, someone had to pave the way for the other children that will be behind her with similar disability's, maybe (I hope) other parents wont have to fight so hard to get their children the help they are entitled too....
What brings about this post? Well on Sunday mornings I listen to a radio station that plays older country songs, this past Sunday, while I was scrubbing the tub and dancing around my bathroom on came "Harper Valley PTA" I suddenly remembered as a kid singing and dancing around the house with my mom to this song....and thinking I am gonna be just like that lady, and not let anybody push me or my kids around.... I guess... I didn't....life can be sooooo sweet...it's funny the things we can hold on to in the recesses of our minds and hearts and not even know....
My mom has even on occasion asked me where I would get the gumption to take on the whole school system and win, she said she never could have....so I didn't get it from her(so she says)... well, I guess its just a lot of me and a little Jeannie Riley!
On a new note: The Trumansburg FreePress came out yesterday and on the front page is an article about Samantha and her being "Student of the Year" and the scholarship, it made me cry (I know I'm always bawling!) but she "thanked her mom, for making her dreams a reality", she doesn't realize it now but it was all her, I was just there shouting and cheering her on, so she always believed in herself (maybe the greatest gift I could give her, and it didn't cost a blasted thing!)
Thursday, June 18, 2009
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3 comments:
Congratulations to both of you on a job well done.
I was that kind of mom too...I think you have to be today and I feel so bad for the kids whose parents aren't.
Excellent Post . It is Heart Warming To See Kids Excell When It Would Be Easier To Back Down . Obviously they Have A great Mom That Taught Them Well How To Kick Butt And Take Names .
I Have A Niece That Had A Speach Problem Due To Deafness They Dint Find Till She Was 2 , People Thought She Was Slow . However She Was Smarter Than Most And Learned How To Use It To Her Advantage . It Served Her Well .
Keep Going Mom Ur Doing Great
Great post, that will be an article worth keeping..:-)
I had a little problem in school called not paying attention, now they call it ADD, instead of History, which I love now, I was consumed by learning everything I could about sharks, thanks Spielberg..:-)
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