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interesting, and unexpected turn of events...
Jonathan's first grade year is going really rocky. He's been sent home with 3 referrals. The first two we were really mad/upset with him. But today, when he came home with the third. We realized that something deeper is wrong. It really made me check myself on how much I had been teaching Jonathan the performance-based system, without even knowing it. The past couple of days I realized that it is best to understand than to change. I realized that I had been trying to change Jonathan all along into a happy healthy boy. Wow, no wonder why he's going through all of this. He's been dealing with hitting and kicking...I really think that he's inwardly angry at SOMETHING. He doesn't even know how he feels when he does these things. I'm not upset at him. I'm not even as sad as I was before. Now I'm at a point where I realize that he needs our unconditional love and UNDERSTANDING more than ever. He needs security, and I don't think that I've given him that as much as I have ways on how to behave. Wow, what an eye-opener.
Jonathan's first grade year is going really rocky. He's been sent home with 3 referrals. The first two we were really mad/upset with him. But today, when he came home with the third. We realized that something deeper is wrong. It really made me check myself on how much I had been teaching Jonathan the performance-based system, without even knowing it. The past couple of days I realized that it is best to understand than to change. I realized that I had been trying to change Jonathan all along into a happy healthy boy. Wow, no wonder why he's going through all of this. He's been dealing with hitting and kicking...I really think that he's inwardly angry at SOMETHING. He doesn't even know how he feels when he does these things. I'm not upset at him. I'm not even as sad as I was before. Now I'm at a point where I realize that he needs our unconditional love and UNDERSTANDING more than ever. He needs security, and I don't think that I've given him that as much as I have ways on how to behave. Wow, what an eye-opener.