Re: OT - Bedraggled and defeated and looking for ideas - Long and OT
- From: "julia sidebottom" <juliasb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 07:37:18 -0400
Here in the States where I live things are a bit different. My grand
daughter has some special needs and one of the criteria before going into
kindergarten is that she needed to be fully potty trained. Because she
started school when she was very young (not quite 3) the teachers and
teacher aids were allowed to change her diapers and clothing if necessary.
Of course every school district here has different rules but the district
I live in as well as my daughter's district this rule applies to every
child. If the child starts regular school (kindergarten or higher) and is
not potty trained the child can be pulled out of school. The district has
to provide a home school program if appropriate dependent on the child's age
or special needs if any exist. If not the child will have to start school
again the next year. The only other rule there is that the child must be in
school by age 7.
I wish you a lot of luck on this one. It can't be easy.
julia
"Sharon Harper" <sharonoz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:44f6adc2$0$5109$afc38c87@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Y'all really should listen to yourself when you don't feel up to going
into work. I didn't feel like it as I managed to pick up a tummy bug and
spent most of the morning before leaving in the loo. I was also feeling
tired (not sleeping well) and low (dramas at work involving the
principal - my boss - and one of the other workers who I'm good friends
with and have been loyal too giving her support, encouragement and advice
as she is not happy with the principal. The principal all but told me on
monday that said worker has been stabbing me and others in the back. To
say I was shocked was an understatement. Now said worker is wantng to go
for coffee on monday - I've agreed but am not sure whether to bring up
what was said to me, leave it alone, prettend nothing has happened? Oy
Vey! perhaps I'll have a migraine on monday.....).
Anyway the day went from bad to worse. We have a boy in prep (which is
first year of primary (elementary?) school - where kids are 5 or 6 years
old) who is .....how do you put it nicely? he is the size of your average
4th grader not so much in height but in width. He should be wearing a
size 5 or six but is wearing a size 20 shorts and an adult small t-shirt.
The poor love can barely stand or sit on his own. He is of Maori descent
and has been treated like a prince at home - indulged, spoiled,
mollycoddled. His mother has little to do with him or his elder sister
(she is in the year above) and they are all but raised by their
grandparents.
He is a right royal pain at school, bullying the other kids, tantrums when
things don't go his way, which we are trying to deal with using time out,
removal from the other kids plus rewarding the good behaviour. Our
guidance counsellor hit the nail on the head when he said "It'd be easier
to treat him like a 5 year old if he LOOKED like one - this kid could be
playing front row forward for the All Blacks!).
The worst thing is he is still probably 50% not toilet trained. About 2/5
days he will have accidents - either wee or poo, sometimes both. Those
are the days we know about anyway. The problem is he cannot clean himself
properly because of his size and by law we are not allowed to - quite
frankly I don't *want* too either. We (read I) have to keep him in sick
bay until we (read I) can contact grandpa to bring a change of clothes and
clean him. Usually he will take him home and then bring him back, but
often the kid doesn't come back. We have limited stocks of loan clothing
and not much that will fit him, esp undies.
He stood out in the yard at lunch today and let rip. The yard duty
teacher bought him into sick bay and put him in the toilet to clean
himself while we (read I) supervised and called home. He ended up doing
more number 2 in the toileet and refused to put on the tracksuit pants
we'd found because we couldn't supply undies as well. Fine, stay til
grandpa comes. Grandpa arrived huffing and puffing that he never did this
at home and dragged grandma in to clean him. After that he went back to
class. Never mind leaving thebathroom with poo everywhere!!
What can I do, what ideas have you got to try and get this boy toilet
trained? I'm at my wit's end. We've asked them to supply us with a
change of clothes for him and they've said that they will but most of the
time what they say and what they do......
--
Sharon from Melbourne Australia (Queen of Down Under) reaching for the ice
cream, jelly, cream bickies, you name it and crawling beneath the
covers....
http://www.geocities.com/shazrules/craft.html (takes awhile to load)
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/shazrules/my_photos (same as website but
quicker)
.
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