We may not agree with some of the terminologies used in this success story. But the story does hold to the title. Persistence, constant reminder, and practising do help a lot when it comes to children with FASD.
This my story with Jaicee.
This my story with Jaicee.
He was always in trouble in school, I would get calls like crazy for awhile, sometimes I didn’t even pick up or return calls.
I was just under a lot of stress with him.
Kids would tell him to do something and he was the one that got in trouble, some kids would tell him to go beat up a kid and be in trouble.
So, a couple of years ago, I started to talk to him about how the other kids were using him.
This is what I taught him: Stop, Think, Consequences.
What’s going to happen if I do this or that.
I really brainwashed him to use this method, it took a while, but it’s starting to work, it took about a year and half for him to get it.
I remind him everyday when he leaves for school.
I think he’s starting to notice too in the last year, sometimes he would tell me, Mom, I remember what you said and that’s what I did. Also, he tells me, you know what Mom…normal kids can do exactly the same thing as me but they don’t get in trouble, but as soon as I do it, the story becomes really big and out of hand, half the time the teachers exaggerate.
I had to fight a lot with the school system for him, I adopted Jaicee from a family member that drank and he has a sister that is a year older than him. She’s affected too, but not the same way as Jaicee, they do having learning problems but pretty smart on other things that they do. Jaicee reads a lot, Michelle draws. About five years ago they couldn’t read and got them into Reading Club at their school, plus I cut off T.V and games to two hours, that worked, they can read really well now.
Anyway, this is my story.
Solange
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