My grading helper

Ada Mae

Comments

[Liz]

What a nice helper. Relative to your posts on anger, I wonder if you have seen the article at Wrightslaw,
http://www.wrightslaw.com/advoc/articles/ALESSI1.html

snippet:
The Blame Game
Parents of special ed kids often say that they are intimidated, patronized and made to feel guilty and inadequate by staff at their children’s school. These parents feel helpless, frustrated, and defensive. Not surprisingly, parents behave exactly like other human beings when they are blamed or attacked. Feeling threatened and uncomfortable, most parents try to explain and justify their position, in hopes that they will be understood. A few go on the offense, firing volleys of blame back. Many parents find these experiences exquisitely painful and humiliating. If they withdraw and try to avoid school functions, they find that they've been labeled as "uninvolved parents." Again, they are blamed for their children’s learning problems.

And I also wonder if you are familiar with the work of Ross Greene and Stuart Ablon

http://www.explosivechild.com/

snippet

" The CPS model -- which was first articulated in the book, The Explosive Child -- proposes that challenging behavior should be understood and handled in the same manner as other recognized learning disabilities. In other words, difficult children and adolescents lack important cognitive skills essential to handling frustration and mastering situations requiring flexibility and adaptability. "

[Chancy]

Beautiful Cat.

[Tamar]

Liz, thanks so much for those links!