School

Never underestimate the memory of a child. Traumatic events are burned into our memories no matter what age we are. Since S attends a small private school, they provide childcare for all of the teachers children. One teacher had a baby at the beginning of the school year and apparently she just came back to school. S had been going full days at school as much as half days. Last week, I think she went 4 full days and one half day. She did a full day Monday and then has been adamant about going only half days. I put two and two together and asked her some probing questions. I guessed it correctly, she doesn't want to stay because of the crying baby. The caretaker feeds the babies in the cafeteria the same time that S is in there. The baby room is also right next door to her classroom. I thought that would be a problem in the beginning, but it has seemed to be okay. I think there are enough distractions to keep her mind off of it. Crying has always been a huge trauma trigger for her and still is. My 14 year old remembers S saying that the babies were spanked when they cried. I don't remember her ever saying that, but her reaction matches that statement. There was also an incident that S told me about where she was stressed out and the teacher didn't recognize it. Since things have been going so well, I'm sure everything I've told her at the beginning of the year has been forgotten. I have an email into her to have a meeting. I hope I can say things the right way, it's such shaky territory. Hopefully they know her well enough to see what I am saying.

We have conquered the potty!!! It's been 10 days now and we're not looking back. She even was able to do it while we were away from home. She even graduated to a kid toothbrush the other day. We had been using a Wisp travel toothbrush because it was small enough for her. Now we just need to get rid of the bottle!