http://notesfromhome.com/2009/06/25/when-life-is-hard-for-your-child-what-do-you-do/ motherhood in real-time Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:45:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://notesfromhome.com/2009/06/25/when-life-is-hard-for-your-child-what-do-you-do/comment-page-1/#comment-1536 Counseling Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:37:17 +0000 http://mostleast.com/2009/06/25/when-life-is-hard-for-your-child-what-do-you-do/#comment-1536 [...] William was equally forthcoming but given he has speech difficulties it was often up to me to interpret for the consellor. But he explained how he always picked the sad and angry faces when trying to tell his teachers how he was feeling. He told her how he had no friends and when he did make a friend, the friend was Someone Else’s Friend when he returned from another period off sick. He told her how he was too tired to play in the playground and often had to sit on the friendship bench. Then when someone offered to play with him, he said no thanks and that friend wondered why the hell he was sitting on the friendship bench (it doesn’t occur to him to tell them that he is tired). He told her about the pain and the medicines and the worries about having to go to hospital. He told her about the times he wished he was dead. [...] [...] William was equally forthcoming but given he has speech difficulties it was often up to me to interpret for the consellor. But he explained how he always picked the sad and angry faces when trying to tell his teachers how he was feeling. He told her how he had no friends and when he did make a friend, the friend was Someone Else’s Friend when he returned from another period off sick. He told her how he was too tired to play in the playground and often had to sit on the friendship bench. Then when someone offered to play with him, he said no thanks and that friend wondered why the hell he was sitting on the friendship bench (it doesn’t occur to him to tell them that he is tired). He told her about the pain and the medicines and the worries about having to go to hospital. He told her about the times he wished he was dead. [...]

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