day at the zoo ~ goats ass
dropping Kadison off at her new daycare/preschool and hearing her screams of "mama!!!" and the face of pure sadness breaks my heart. knowing that she does not want to go there and have us leave her just makes me want to re-think everything about our lives and how can we change this for her....but also knowing that she's usually fine not long after we leave ...but it still sucks. they tell us she's scared to go out in the back yard and goes into hysterics if they try to bring her out there...now what is that about? we don't know...
we visited her homeopathy doctor this weekend for a check in about the hives she's been getting off and on since January. Our pediatrician couldn't explain why or do anything about them so we consulted "Dr. Beth" a wonderfully calm and healing homeopapthy practicioner. The hives have decreased but they aren't fully gone. We spoke on Sat. about Kadison's anxiety about daycare and what we can do to lessen it...i hope something works soon for her and for us.
the weekends are a haven for all of us and then Monday comes and it starts all over again, really trying hard to think positively and realistically but damn! it sure is hard to do that when we all feel like shit!
They don't call it Manic Monday for nothin I guess...
Posted by stef at May 14, 2007 09:18 AMDear Stef... I've been having the same anxiety when Monday comes... I hope Kadison feels better soon and you too, my sweets. Miss ya!
Posted by: Alex at May 18, 2007 10:15 AMAWWW!! I'm so sorry your little munchkin is having such a hard time.
Have you tried having Kadison use small dolls to create a story or draw pictures to tell a story about school?? Maybe if she told a story, you guys could figure what's bothering her.
Maybe if you did a story about what kinds of things are in a backyard at a school...?? Not her school ... any school.
I remember when I was about her age, I was terrified to go into the jelly closet in the basement because it was under the stairs that led to the basement and it was dark in there. I had no problem going anywhere else in the entire basement by myself -- just did NOT want to go in the jelly closet. No one told me anything -- it was something scary I created in my own head.
Maybe Kadison has created a scary story about the backyard at the school and needs to be shown that it's not really scary. Have you tried going out there with her?? Maybe sitting down and having some juice and cookies ... so she can associate more pleasant memories with the backyard.
She's such a beautiful little girl, I really hate to think that there's something in her world that she finds scary. I think she needs to know that she can talk about scary things with Mom and Dad and Grandma and Grandpa and Teacher. Things that are talked about aren't so scary.
BIG HUGS.
Barb
Posted by: Barb at May 14, 2007 08:03 PM