Thank you! Hahaha oh no, we won't be having any "ooopsies". đ
Yes, children are certainly wonderful. I just couldnât imagine starting all over again at this point. I truly am enjoying the growing up stage.
Thatâs exactly what our ten year old struggles with. He has symptoms of dyslexia along with other learning challenges. We have him in this program called Expressways to Learning that has helped tremendously and we see great progress. He too is very smart and learns better visually and is really great at math. He had very low confidence in himself and wouldnât read out loud. We can see his confidence growing and he is slowly reading out loud more. Their brains are so brilliant but just work differently than ours. There are things my son can understand or figure out that the average person canât. But the more simple things that you think he would know are the ones he struggles with. Iâm learning that he has a hard time explaining whatâs wrong or whatâs confusing him. I have to take the time to figure out whatâs causing him to struggle, like it could be a word in the question he doesnât know. How can he answer a question if there are words in it that he doesnât understand? Itâs things like this Iâm learning about our son and itâs making me a better teacher for him. We have been working on learning adjectives so he can better express himself and describe how heâs feeling more clearly.
Another thing I learned is that their memory is very short term. I always wondered why he claimed he didnât hear my instructions. Well, itâs because he only grasps the first parts of what Iâm saying and the second half gets tuned out to where he wonât remember. We now have to make sure we tell him the most important things first and try to keep instructions short.
At one point I was so frustrated with him because I thought he was playing dumb to be lazy and get out of doing his work. I felt terrible when we found out he really had learning difficulties. đ
Thatâs the beauty of homeschooling because I was able to figure out something was really wrong by observing him. Now, we can take our time and go at his pace and give him the help and support he needs.
Itâs good that you all are taking care of this now while he is young so that it will be easier for him to overcome those struggles. Our instructor talks about how she is helping adults that have these learning difficulties and they wish they would have found help years ago instead of waiting. So youâre definitely on the right track. Iâd be happy to share more about our experiences if youâre interested. đ
Take care and thanks so much for the visit and comment ~
What an awesome comment thank you! Going to take me a little bit to digest it but I read it! I think we share some of the same struggles!
Hahaha! Sorry about that. It is quite a bit to read but I do like sharing once I know someone else might be going through the same thing. Thanks for taking the time to read ~ đ