Comments on: Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone… http://omegamom.com/2008/08/14/aint-no-sunshine-when-shes-gone/ A "good enough" mom muses about alpha moms, adoption, computers, the State Of The World, Internet quirkiness, and the Kosmik All Thu, 24 May 2012 15:10:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Theresa http://omegamom.com/2008/08/14/aint-no-sunshine-when-shes-gone/#comment-25556 Theresa Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:58:38 +0000 http://omegamom.com/2008/08/14/aint-no-sunshine-when-shes-gone/#comment-25556 Despite the fact that our parent teacher conferences for dd in PreK-3 , Pre K 4 and Kindergarten have all gone well and I see her do well on the work she brings home our dd is putting up some sort of resistance to the idea of reading too-and having taught 2nd grade and knowing what she needs to learn in this one year of first grade I am nervous. On the one hand I hope her resistance is just more of her typical resistance to mommy directly teaching her something. She loves when I read her a good chapter book and I think may feel the level of the books she can read now-like those BOB books must seem boring. On the other hand I have fears that my concerns regarding dd's delays in speech are going to interfere with her developing ability to read and write.Add to that the frustrasion I have had ever since the EI team came to our house after we had been home a year and said though dd was delayed in speech she was not delayed enough to qualify for services-Translation:there was not enough funding. This has continued even into Kindergarten where speech services are offered but there was not enough room in the therapist'schedule. Now in first grade she may be pulled out of reading instruction for speech therapy. Having witnessed these pullout programs in my own classroom I hate it. So I am going to send warm 90 degree rays of sunshine of hope from here in PA to Omegadottir and we'll welcome cool breezes from Alaska to calm down this overly anxious mother so I don't pass on my concerns directly to dd. Apologies for any strange typpos. Been having trouble sleeping lately and took an Ambien before posting this. The keyboard feels wiggly and I feel like I might fall into the computer. I better crawl off to bed. Despite the fact that our parent teacher conferences for dd in PreK-3 , Pre K 4 and Kindergarten have all gone well and I see her do well on the work she brings home our dd is putting up some sort of resistance to the idea of reading too-and having taught 2nd grade and knowing what she needs to learn in this one year of first grade I am nervous. On the one hand I hope her resistance is just more of her typical resistance to mommy directly teaching her something. She loves when I read her a good chapter book and I think may feel the level of the books she can read now-like those BOB books must seem boring. On the other hand I have fears that my concerns regarding dd’s delays in speech are going to interfere with her developing ability to read
and write.Add to that the frustrasion I have had ever since the EI team came to our house after we had been home a year and said though dd was delayed in speech she was not delayed enough to qualify for services-Translation:there was not enough funding. This has continued even into Kindergarten where speech services are offered but there was not enough room in the therapist’schedule. Now in first grade she may be pulled out of reading instruction for speech therapy. Having witnessed these pullout programs in my own classroom I hate it.

So I am going to send warm 90 degree rays of sunshine of hope from here in PA to Omegadottir and we’ll welcome cool breezes from Alaska to calm down this overly anxious mother so I don’t pass on my concerns directly to dd.

Apologies for any strange typpos. Been having trouble sleeping lately and took an Ambien before posting this. The keyboard feels wiggly and I feel like I might fall into the computer. I better crawl off to bed.

]]> By: del http://omegamom.com/2008/08/14/aint-no-sunshine-when-shes-gone/#comment-25386 del Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:13:08 +0000 http://omegamom.com/2008/08/14/aint-no-sunshine-when-shes-gone/#comment-25386 Thanks for the hi-rez version of the sunset pic. I'm using it as my desktop wallpaper now! Thanks for the hi-rez version of the sunset pic. I’m using it as my desktop wallpaper now!

]]> By: GrannyJ http://omegamom.com/2008/08/14/aint-no-sunshine-when-shes-gone/#comment-25365 GrannyJ Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:34:05 +0000 http://omegamom.com/2008/08/14/aint-no-sunshine-when-shes-gone/#comment-25365 Re: sunshine. Of course it was sunny in Phx. Of course it was hot. I managed to catch a shuttle up to the mountains after a very short while & have to report that at 6 p.m., the Monsoon storms were already pouring down out of the mountains into North Phx. Very unusual. All that wandering about was wonderful, but there are a lot of other places in Alaska that neither of us ha seen. Hint, hint! Re: sunshine. Of course it was sunny in Phx. Of course it was hot. I managed to catch a shuttle up to the mountains after a very short while & have to report that at 6 p.m., the Monsoon storms were already pouring down out of the mountains into North Phx. Very unusual. All that wandering about was wonderful, but there are a lot of other places in Alaska that neither of us ha seen. Hint, hint!

]]> By: preTzel http://omegamom.com/2008/08/14/aint-no-sunshine-when-shes-gone/#comment-25356 preTzel Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:50:56 +0000 http://omegamom.com/2008/08/14/aint-no-sunshine-when-shes-gone/#comment-25356 Poems. That rhyme. The funnier and sillier the better. I have yet to come across a child that will not want to read the silly twists and turns of a story that are rhyming and go absolutely nowhere and absolutely everywhere their imagination can take them. :D I'm sorry GrannyJ had to go home and took the sunshine with her. :( Poems. That rhyme. The funnier and sillier the better. I have yet to come across a child that will not want to read the silly twists and turns of a story that are rhyming and go absolutely nowhere and absolutely everywhere their imagination can take them. :D

I’m sorry GrannyJ had to go home and took the sunshine with her. :(

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