Category Archives: Mental Health

Articles relating to mental health are in this category. Typically they will fall into one of two categories. Yours, or your child’s. Yes, your mental health is important.

Move date confirmed

On January 16th, mom and I will be moving our son to a facility 500 miles from home. During this process we have more questions than we have answers. What happens next year if this new facility decides they are no longer appropriate for David? It took a long time to get David comfortable with the teaching staff, shouldn’t we have an IEP meeting with the new school prior to placement so that the new school can be made aware of what works and doesn’t work with him? Will he miss us, as much as we miss him? When can he move back to his home state?  Who decides that he is stable enough for that to happen? What a way to ring in the new year! Related articles A win, no matter how you look at it (whynotfathers.com) Bed Available! (whynotfathers.com) tentative move date scheduled for David (whynotfathers.com) A

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tentative move date scheduled for David

We received notice today that we can move David on the 9th.  That doesn’t work for our family, as we have other obligations for our children.  So we asked for the 16th of January.  We will know New Year’s Eve if that will work or not. Sad to think about moving him 500 miles. Pray that we are doing the correct thing.  The right thing.  And that David will benefit from this. Tweet #fighting4answrs

Another pleasant visit

We had a pleasant visit with David today.  No issues, no tantrums. Last week after we left he had a period of high activity and needed to be restrained. They were afraid he would hurt himself or someone else.  Since then, no problems. Nearly every week I hear how good he is doing. If he is doing so well, why won’t they keep him?  Why force us to move him? I just don’t understand. The standard argument is that he needs a “low stimulus” environment.  Well, there are only four kids in his residence currently.  Short of isolating him completely, how “low stimulus” can he get? Related articles A pleasant visit (whynotfathers.com) Tweet #fighting4answrs