Tuesday Feb. 26,2008
We have been going through some frustrations with Dore and school lately. It has been hard on both of us. She seemed to be struggling a lot with school work and with some of the exercises as well. After seeing Dr. Sue, our new chiropractor, about her recent run in illnesses, Dr. Sue picked up that Paige is feeling afraid to succeed as this might bring along with it, higher expectations. She has her saying, "I am happy....I do well" and "I am happy...I do great!"
Our last assesment showed some regression which could be a part of the frustration issue. Regression is really just the brain attempting to use new pathways, and struggling to do so.
So two steps forward and one back. But all in all, she is doing well. Socially, life is much better for her. Her reading is constantly improving too. I have noticed that she understands things better and is better able to express herself verbally. She understands jokes better and is able to play some clever ones on her brother! The only place I do not see some improvement is in math. We can only hope the future will brighter here too!
1 comment:
Amy, I am so happy I started to blog today and found your comments. I have a daughter that has been in the program about 3 weeks over a year. ( I believe it will take us about 2 years to complete.) Anyhow, we have gone through many of the same gains and losses with the assessments. My daughter will put up a struggle and not want to do the exercises and this is very hard without any other support. Then she will fall back into the swing of things. Along with school and siblings and other activities this is a difficult situation, yet I know and see the gains are tremendous. Sadly, for us they have been huge, yet a bit at a time and we tend to overlook some of the small but important gains. Stick to the program. And let me know what is going on! A. Crosby
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