Well, it's the end of the first week, and I'm again trying not to drop anyone into a coma, so I'll try to make it short. ;)
The Girl is happy and willing to do school, at least on days that I haven't poisoned her with strange chemicals. Yeah. The pediatrician recommended risperidone (a mood stabilizer) to help calm The Girl down a bit. We tried 0.5 mg, and it didn't really make much difference. We upped it to 1 mg, and well, she slept for two days straight. Yeah, we're poisoning our baby girl. It's 8pm, and she's just waking up. The pediatrician says we can give her 0.5 mg twice a day, so maybe that's a better option.
Yeah, so she got some work done this week, but not much. She has workboxes for:
writing (Excellence in Writing, sort of)
spelling (Zaner-Bloser spelling, 3rd grade)
math (Math-U-See, Gamma)
thinking (Building Thinking Skills, 1)
reading (Read and Understand, 2nd Grade)
grammar (Michael Clay Thomas, Grammar Town)
We're going to set up our big-ass timeline next week and start up again on The Story of the World, Part 1. We got as far as the fall of Crete a few years ago, and we're ready to try Greece again. ;)
On Mondays she has speech and occupational therapy with therapists that actually understand autism. On Tuesdays, she has Brain Gym and ballet. We're going to be doing "homework" for all three classes.
See, as she turns 10, she's also moving a little closer to having completed her "basic education": reading, writing, adding, multiplying, and some fractions and algebra. At that point, I have to decide what's important for her to know. Representative government? Hmm. The time-space continuum? No. Well, then, what?
I honestly don't know yet. I have a few years yet to make sure she can read, write, and multiply. By then, maybe I'll have a clue.
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Ugh. Doctors just put my MIL on Seroquel, and she's been sleeping like 15 hours a day since then, too. I'm all for good sleep, but that's ridiculous! Comas are just as bad as climbing the walls.
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