Fall family update

On the home front, we are moving through the fall. At the beginning of October, we sadly quit the charter school our kids had attended since kindergarten and enrolled the kids in the local public school in order to meet our son's ADHD needs. So, far so good.

Our son is in an inclusion class with regular teacher and a special ed teacher. The child study team met and he will be evaluated for occupational therapy (OT), behavior modification and social skills. We are hoping to get these services in-school as we will continue with psychiatrist, psychologist, neurologist and independent OT. At least the entire onus is not on us.

Our daughter will soon be enrolled in the advanced readers class. On her reading assessment, our daughter scored in the upper level of her grade. (After doing above grade level work since kindergarten!) Our son had scored above level. We were puzzled until we realized our daughter had never been tested for anything in the charter school. She had no clue what to do. This was underscored by son's conviction that all regular school testing he had was ADHD related including math and spelling tests.

Soccer is winding down. My daughter continues with karate. We'll sign our son up for fencing in December. We have art and Brownies and the Unitarians. We are busy most nights and weekends most of the time. I manage to kickbox and do yoga for myself. My partner has resumed knitting. So time moves on apace.