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OT - Would you call this Smart?

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Your parent is coming to pick you up after school. All the other students are outside, waiting for their parents to come pick them up, but you stay inside the building.

She tells you to wait outside next time. Next time, you stand outside waiting. The street in front of the school that your parent will be coming down is a one way street. You stand looking in the opposite direction from where all the cars are coming from. Not once do you glance in the direction where cars are coming from.

OT- Anyone have Experience with Dyslexia?

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A few months back I posted about my D8's problems with reading. Well, I suspected she might have dyslexia, so I got an appointment with the developmental-pediatrics department of a major hospital in town.

The waiting list for appointments was over four months long, so she didn't get seen and tested until September 5th. Another two weeks for the psychiatrist to write up her findings and I just met with her to go over the results yesterday.

Who Put these Ideas in my Daughter's Head?

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Last week my DD8 was having some trouble with her homework. She had to write six sentences, three about what she has already learned at school, and three about what she would like to learn about. She was having a hard time thinking of anything and was getting very upset about it, to the point that she was almost in tears.

My SO overheard us so when I went downstairs to get a glass of water he asked me about it. He asked me "Is D8 okay?"
I explained to him about her homework assignment and that she was upset because she couldn't think of anything.

Letter to exH regarding CS modification

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I want to have child support recalculated for two reasons. Both of our incomes have gone up and it’s been three years since it was first calculated.

Also, according to our divorce agreement, my exH was supposed to set up CS payments with payroll deduction which he has never done. I didn’t press the issue at first but lately he’s been late a lot with payments, two weeks, sometimes a month late at a time. His lateness causes confusion because then he loses tracks of how much he owes, etc.

Can I B*tch about my Bio for a Minute?

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My D15 has an iphone and I am seriously considering getting rid of it and getting her a basic phone.

She is constantly on it. We're in the store and she's on it. We're riding in the car and I can't even say "Look, there's an eagle" because she's looking down at her phone. One day we were at McDonalds. When I turned to her to ask her what she wanted, she was on her phone.

OT - Posting as BM regarding D8's problems with reading

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My D8 has been struggling with reading ever since she started school. I had her tested for learning disabilities, vision, ADHD, etc. the whole run down in first grade by the school. They said she didn't have a disability or anything like that.

Since July of last year, I've had a tutor see her once a week. When she started second grade last fall, the school also had her in a program for kids that scored low in reading. By the end of the first semester, her reading had improved enough that she no longer qualified for the school's program.

OT- Having a Hard Time Standing up for Myself

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I was abused as a kid by my mother. Any and every little thing I did wrong I was severely beaten. One time we were at church and there were some new people there. My mother told me to say Hi to them. I said I didn't want to because I was shy. She took me into the bathroom and beat me really bad. I remember she took me back out to the couple. I was crying so bad from the beating but I managed to chock out the word "hi" to them because I was terrified if I didn't I would get beaten again. I was 5 years old.

Argument about CS

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Just had to vent somewhere.

My exH is supposed to pay $150 in CS every two weeks. Well, at some point I think in October he said he was going to start using his part time job to pay CS. No problem, only the part time job pays him on the first and 15th, not bi-weekly.

ExH was not clear with his request for time, but it's my fault?

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Per our custody agreement, both my exH and I get two weeks of vacation time with our two daughters during the summer when school is out. I usually let my dad spend that time with the girls, and exH lets his mother use his time. Because his mother can never make her mind up as to when she wants to spend the two weeks, I had it stipulated in our custody agreement that exH has to give me notice of when he wanted his two weeks vacation by May 1st or he forfeits the time.

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