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Summer? Stressed for ready? (9 posts)

  • Profile picture of Julia Roberts Julia Roberts said 1 year ago:

    Or maybe you’re a little bit of both, like me. The kids are only doing 2 weeks each of camps and we’re going light on the babysitters now that they are a little older (13 and 10) so this is the first summer we’re not doing full time sitter. I’m going to work around them out of home and seeing friends and visiting our pool, which hopefully will have wifi like they have promised! That’ll allow me to be there AND work a little.

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  • Profile picture of Sylvia Ross Sylvia Ross said 1 year ago:

    Ready, sorta. Summer is hard here because Micah (3 yrs old) is extremely heat intolerant. So we can’t be outside after 10am usualy, unless he is in the pool (doesn’t like sprinklers yet). Because of this, we are going to keep doing school through the summer and take a longer break in the winter. Jennifer’s 5 and doing kindergarten this year, Micah will do some “school” coloring pages and alphabet work when he wants to be involved.

    We are planning a weekly play date with friends, and may trade 2x a week PT for 4x a week swimming lessons if I can talk the pool manager into accommodating Micah’s need to be in the water during Jennifer’s lesson time.

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  • Profile picture of Marythemom Marythemom said 1 year ago:

    STRESSED!! No plans made past the first week (13 hour car trip – each way – with a seriously emotionally disturbed child recently out of residential treatment with unmedicated ADHD). We’ll be seeing biofamily (STRESS) and staying a week with my husband’s family all of whom smoke and NOTHING planned for the week. I was hoping to meet up with some other Trauma Mamas, but not even a nibble.

    The rest of the summer will be spent trying to keep daughter calm and unstimulated because we have no back up plan if/when she has a meltdown, and of course she’s ALREADY unstable, bored and hating me because she wants to hang out with her friends (especially the male ones) and school isn’t even out yet…

    Plus she has some serious medical issues that the doctors can’t figure out, and she wants to pretend don’t exist.

    Other than that….

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  • Profile picture of Katrina Moody Katrina Moody said 1 year ago:

    Ugh – NOT looking forward to summer at all. But we are trying to have a lot of the routine built into the days as a result. :(

    We’ve never been able to get a lot of extra help, even sitters are few and far between. So summer is about everyone relaxing as much as possible while still having fun.

    We are wanting to challenge Logan’s verbal development this summer – so sick of the school SLP who says there is no hope. And insurance has dropped all the kids so we’re busy fighting that instead of worrying over more therapies. We can’t even follow up on my youngest’s new diagnosis until we have coverage again. I mean, we can but we have to pay out of pocket – and our pockets are kind of empty these days.

    So blah … summer is looking a little bleak, to be honest … but we want the boys to have a great one, so we’re trying to set up a great time for them.

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  • Profile picture of Julia Roberts Julia Roberts said 12 months ago:

    Wow, you guys have a lot going on! (And welcome back Kat! It’s great to see you!)

    I am going to make out a schedule because if I don’t we’ll be spending hours in the front of the TV.

    Also, our goal is to have typing class each morning just for 15 minutes. Because of their vision they both use keyboards but need to move faster on them!

    Sylvia, excellent idea to swap out times of the year so you can enjoy more time out with MIcah!

    Our summer starts Monday…so I better get on that schedule, huh?

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  • Profile picture of Katrina Moody Katrina Moody said 12 months ago:

    LOL Julia, our summer starts on Tuesday! I’ve been trying to adapt based on the kids’ need to stay out of the worst of the heat as much as possible. So far my schedule is limited by money *grin* but there are tons of free things to do and I’m working on those now.

    Curious to see what others are doing to combat the stress of summer!

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  • Profile picture of Janet Callahan Janet Callahan said 12 months ago:

    We have 2 weeks left of school. Supposedly there’s ESY, but we don’t have a schedule yet, and it was only 2 mornings a week a couple years ago. A is staying in daycare 4 days a week when he’s not at ESY, and the 5th day, assuming it’s still an ESY day, is school-lunch-nap-therapy-therapy. What a long day.

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  • Profile picture of Katrina Moody Katrina Moody said 12 months ago:

    ESY was such a joke here that we gave up working for it a couple years ago and decided to make summer a multi-sensory experience and break for the boys. Wouldn’t have minded going for some intense therapy for my Logan but our insurance cut them all off (we just got it back for them yesterday) so I wasn’t able to follow through on it yet. Blah

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  • Profile picture of Miriam @ a Rearranged Life Miriam @ a Rearranged Life said 12 months ago:

    Just been surviving our latest IEP battle that had him out of school for a month…until the school broken down and provided a nurse. (He gets to attend for his last 2 weeks.) No idea for summer! One day at a time…but I do really wish I had a game plan!

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