David

I just had to share this photo. I love seeing the joy simple things bring. I want to reflect on things like this right now because I'm feeling a little stressed since we met with the principal, David's teacher and the school psychologist this afternoon. We aren't getting the daily phone calls home anymore but at conference last week and today at our meeting David's teacher sounds very tired of all the work David requires. She cares very much for David and is somewhat emotional about how hard it is for him to be in the classroom environment. I/We are feeling the school is really pushing us in the direction of medication. It's a very hard decision to make and one we want to be very sure about. On a positive note, the school psychologist is going to be partnering with David's teacher to make some changes in the classroom i.e., visual cues for David to help him follow the routines each day. They are going to help him build up to the 20 minute carpet time in 5 minute increments. Basically he needs help to follow routines and stay on task. We are going to try to help at home by firming up our routines and adding the visual cues as well. We will meet back with everyone we met with today in mid December. If you would pray for us to have wisdom about the next step should these interventions not help enough we would appreciate that.