Author Archives: carl

Mediation meeting today

Today we meet with the mediator.  On the other side of the table is the school district.  All told, there will be 20 people at this meeting for our son.  It is a struggle for us. We are fighting to keep David in public school in our home town.  We have been fighting for a long time. I don’t know, but, I am tired of the us versus them nature of this struggle.  We should be working together for David’s care, not fighting each other. More as we know it. Related articles Mediation Request redux submitted (whynotfathers.com) a midsummer nights update (whynotfathers.com) Tweet #fighting4answrs

holy meltdown time Batman

We just had the mother of all meltdowns.  Haven’t seen one this bad for a long time.  He attempted to attack his older sister, and then went into full off complaint mode talking so fast no one could understand him.  After which he started to attack me.  I ended up laying him on his belly across a bed and laying across him so he couldn’t move.  Very scary.  I am a large guy.  he is less than 80 pounds, and it was all I could do to keep him from hurting either himself or someone else. I swear that for a few minutes, I wasn’t sure he was my son. All over two things.  An ink pen and he didn’t want to take his meds. Now he is happily playing with his cars. and medicated. Calling into psych right now.   Tweet #fighting4answrs

my name is dad

How do you teach hard lessons to an adult?  You know the one that says: “you aren’t a child anymore, it is time to face responsibility…” I don’t have much more to say than that.  One child/adult is leaving for college and seems to be intent on packing as much fun into five days as can be done without taking caring of what they are responsible for in their life and their needs for college.  Guess if they haven’t learned it by now they will learn it the hard way soon enough. My name is dad and I don’t know what I am talking about.   Tweet #fighting4answrs