Busy busy and even more busy than before

Seems time flies when you are fighting for your kids rights, have been to Early Intervention Program (EIP) goal setting on Monday morning; this involves setting goals that you want your child to achieve in EIP, I'd like Mr5 to master fine motor skills such as buttons, regain lost toileting skills (which we worked out regressed when his kinder teacher was away) and improve his receptive language and listening skills...Ideally I'd like him to be accepted by his peers at kinder but if the parents are complete dolts when it comes to diversity, what can you do??

Monday night saw a strange phenomenon, a kinder committee meeting sans minutes from last meeting or treasurer report....... Thought the meeting had to be rescheduled if such items could not be tabled,motioned as passed and reviewed? I attended as the additional needs kids in the kinder are being somewhat vilified by the other children and indirectly by the parents, council attended to advise the committee of HCC's (Hume City Councils ) stance on the matter of inclusion and such, the EIP co ordinator attended to offer support to the parents and offer her advice to the committee and parents on the matter of inclusion, HCC supplied no less than 3 representatives...Why, I do not know. The committees reception was mixed to put it one way.

It was a relatively peaceful encounter, the committee wants to abolish fruit duty (preparation of fruit by volunteer parents)as it limits the time with their kids..Yeah right. The real issue is that it was a matter for which the previous teacher stood her ground on and this is their little power play, they even have the support of the other kinder teacher who no doubt was vicariously involved in the covert "get rid of Rachel" campaign. Tuesday saw a day of writing and re writing a letter to the committee, whilst playing trains with my boys and getting Mr 2 some new shoes. Friends visited at 5.00 and their kids ate dinner with mine..They all left at 8.30!!! Their school age child had a curriculum day on Wednesday...But mine don't!!!

So today we had kinder which Mr 5 did not want to attend because two boys (whose names I will not print ) bailed him up in the fort and threw balls at him on Monday, he has been telling me about this since Monday afternoon. Obviously he was hurt (physically and mentally ) by this act and where was the teacher or responsible adult when this was occurring? So after convincing him it would not happen again and that I would talk to the teacher..Which I did, I mean stuff like this happens but Mr 5 was really really caught up in this matter so I thought I'd let the teacher know plus when upset he's hard to understand and this is amplified if you aren't used to his nauces of speech. I also took delivery of Miss 8's replacement Tamagotchi (bought of eBay) so she was very pleased that Mum came through on that (even thought the day after I won the auction the local Toyworld got a delivery in..DRATS).

Saturday we all went to the market to get fruit and vegetables, a weekly excursion but usually it's Dad and boys, mum and girl sort of thing...We had to collect and choose fish for the tropical aquarium and also have a water sample tested. The kids picked one small Angelfish each, some Guramis (?) a Silver tailed shark and we transferred three Black Widows from the cold tank to the tropical (they can be kept in both) Apparently, you only buy small fish with a tank set up as the tank can still "crash" (enviro melt down) Must admit it is very relaxing to watch them and the kids learn so much from them.

Had been trying to get some information about PSD (Program For Students With disabilities) testing along with the EIP co ordinator, we had not heard when Mr 5 would be tested...And lo and behold the letter came Tuesday...Not a lot if info just that a DET (Dept of Education and Training)psychologist will contact me regarding test date. Hope it's not when there is an incursion at kinder..Could be disruptive.