Fighting for Answers | Monthly Archives: February 2011 | Page 6February 2011 - Page 6 of 8

>Dads Groups

>No offense moms, but dads need a group just for themselves. It isn’t easy sharing your feelings with another person, it is even harder if you are male. I am not talking about a get down and drunk group. I am talking about a group that is uniquely father based. Where we can share our hopes and dreams for our children with others who understand our perspective as a father. Since I started this blog, I have had a number of dads email me and say “I thought it was just me…” Father’s shouldn’t be made to feel that way. Know of one? I searched the Internet and found a couple, but none in North Dakota, and most deal with child support and single dads. While that is important, this group is about the special needs of our kids. Maybe it is time to start a group. What do you

>Preparations

>We are getting ready for meetings with the school. We are getting some assistance from an Education Specialist at the University. She asked to be invited to our next meeting, we are hoping for assistance from Protection and Advocacy as well. We are going to invite the school superintendent. If this doesn’t work, we will seek legal advice, under the Americans with Disabilities and Civil Rights Acts. On a plus side, we asked for an increase in the subsidy payment we get for M because of the special needs adoption and it was approved. Waiting for SSI determination. Waiting for Spring. Tweet #fighting4answrs

>$(%& School!!!

>By M’s standards, he had a good week. Unitl 2:30 pm on Friday afternoon. He rolled his pencil away and said he didn’t want to. School ends at 3:10. Couldn’t we just let it go. Nope. Got a call at 2:50 that the sheriff was at the school for M. Seems that after M said no, someone who doesn’t work with him, got involved and leaned on the table using her fists to hold herself up. (which some would consider a threatening position.) To quote the teacher who is working with M, he vacated which is the term that we use to describe what happens to him when he has a manic episode. It took two people to restrain him, and one person got bit in the process. The person who got bit was the person who doesn’t work with him and who helped (in my view) escalate the whole