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.

a brand new IEP for the year

We are blessed. We are blessed to have an incredible team of caring people working for David’s behalf. Today we had an IEP team meeting and talked about strengths and weaknesses.  David has many of each.  In future posts I will talk about many of them.  Today though, let us talk about the team. Caring professionals all, teachers, administrators, counselors, social workers, it was a full house.  Between 10 and 15 people.  Not our smallest meeting, but surely one of the best we have ever had. Each teacher started by discussing strengths, then clarifying weaknesses, followed again by a strength.  The key here was that while discussing the weaknesses, the strengths were stressed more. We applied a number of goals for David this year, we will discuss those at length in other posts, there is too much for one post, but each one is unique to David’s situation.  They even

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In Sickness and in Health

When my bride and I got married, that was a part of our vows.  As I am sure it was for most of our readers. It seems to me that when we have children there is an implied vow “in sickness and in health”. I don’t know of any parent who wouldn’t gladly switch places with their child who has a life threatening illness. In the last weeks before we placed David, I heard a lot about how he was affecting my health.  And it is true, he was having a major impact on my health.  You see, I have a couple of different illnesses; illnesses that react in a negative fashion when confronted with Stress. If I could somehow fix David by giving every ounce of good health that I had, I would do so.  In a heartbeat.  No question about it. However.  When he started to drain the

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what is this? an mp3 player?

Received a phone call tonight from the residential facility where David is. Seems he had an mp3 player.  The staff was pretty sure that it belonged to the cottage, but David can tell a pretty convincing lie. David evidently told the staff that we had given it to him. Nope! So they called and asked. David spent most of a week in the psychiatric unit before he went there, he didn’t have an mp3 player there. They did catalog all of his stuff when he first arrived in the residential facility, so I am not sure why they wouldn’t have checked that listing.  Like we told them, one of David’s triggers is electronic devices. So now he has consequences. Related articles 20 Euros and a mp3 Player (whynotfathers.com) stealing from school (whynotfathers.com) Tweet #fighting4answrs