Happy New Year!

We have all had a lovely Christmas and are looking forward to all the promise that a new year brings.

My boy is now started the new school term and has struggled to say the least. I did mention a problem in my last post and we have now got to the crux of the problem. He is not enjoying the maths lessons, much preferring the english lesson. He says that in the english lesson he is able to talk to the other pupils in his group and likes them, but doesn't feel that he has had this chance within his maths lessons. He has agreed to keep one of the Maths lessons as the subject is compulsory but swap the other for another english lesson which will give him the chance to get to know the other group of kids. This should help increase his confidence and from there he will hopefully add that lesson back into his timetable at a later date. I am so pleased that he has been able to think this through himself and state his case sensibly and with great thought to how he feels. A first for him as normally he wouldn't be able to say why he feels this way. It just proves that his medication has helped and given him the basis to keep calm and think rationally. Anxietywise the medication does have an effect but doesn't take it all away as he has still been rather stressed over this. His sleep being the first thing to suffer and so from there, of course, mine too!

The best bit about his decision is that it means his time in school on one day will increase as it means, due to the way the timetable is set, that he will have a maths lesson, lunch club and then his english lesson. Hopefully this will help as we gradually increase his timetable. So even though we have made a side step in changing a lesson for one that he enjoys more, we have also made a step forward in the amount of time spent in school on any one day.

Onwards and upwards! As they say :o)