Andrew

I know I work with special ed kids. But when it's my son who is having teh trouble with spelling, I can't help him. It's so frustrating! He will cry and sob and freak out so that he's making himself sick! I've talked to his doctor and his teachers about his frustration, but nothing seems to work. Today he said to me "Why do we have to have 95% of the day doing something I don't like? Why can't we do more math acience and social studies? Why do I have to do so much spelling homework?" I finally got so frustrated with him that I answered "Your teacher hates you that's why she does it." I know it probably wasn't the best thing for me to do, but I ran out of things to say to him to be supportive. Sometimes I don't know how to help him. Dane knows better than I di how to deal with him, but when I call him, he gets upset that I can't calm Andrew down on my own. So today I didn't. Eventually (faster than I thought he would) he calmed down and got the work done super fast. He does not like being bad at spelling, but he also knows he has to study to do well. He wants to do well, but gets frustrated with it not being easy like science, math and social studies are. I reminded him that he wouldn't be able to learn those things without reading and spelling, but that made his mood worse. Sometimes I just don't know what to do.