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All of the local camps ended on August 16. School doesn't start until September 10th. Looking for ideas on how other families handle this down-time.

This year is shot but I need to put something new in place for next year. In the past I've taken at least a week off, but this year work is hectic and I can't, and anyway my vacation is gone from the 4 weeks of holidays they schedule during the school year.

We usually go stay with my in-laws so they can mostly watch him while I and my husband WFH, but this year it's such a mess. They're all getting older and just cannot handle a rambunctious 5yo boy who wants to run around outside and ride his bike.

Yesterday it came to a head (on day two, lolsob) because he was having a huge energy spurt and my MiL really wanted him to bake cookies inside with her. I had to take off the afternoon to take him somewhere more fun. My husband has somewhat PT hours (but is somehow super busy this month aughh) but took off this morning.

(Other mitigating factor is that we've been mostly screen-free all summer and it's been SO MUCH better for my kid but obviously screens are the answer right now.)

Anyway just needed to vent but if someone else has solved this differently, please tell me your secrets!

Hi! Any suggestions for a nice stitch that I can freehand a summer tank top with? I'd love to find something that's based on DC or TC for length and speed, but open to suggestions. (My first thought was just to use rows of DC but hoping I can find something more interesting, just to give my brains and hands some variety.)

I have a ton of Debbie Bliss Piper yarn on hand for this that I'd love to use.

I think I'm mostly just venting here. I'm so disappointed. And panicking a bit about the next 8 weeks (school doesn't start til Sept 10).

My kid is 5yo, in the diagnostic process but showing a lot of ADHD signs. Had some trouble in preschool and public school up until now, but nothing serious enough that expulsion was ever close to being on the table.

And then...4 days of summer camp later, he's kicked out for shoving and being generally "too much." I don't even know what went on there, he won't tell me and the camp didn't have a lot of specifics. Obviously it could not have been a good match.

We are just coming off of a great 3-day weekend with absolutely zero behaviors that are out of line for this age, so I'm just sort of shocked and dumbfounded that the kid I spent the weekend with would be so out of line that four days was an immediate expulsion. He attended this camp all last year and it was fine.

(They gave me a refund for most of the summer, which they don't normally do, so seemingly they realize my kid is just a lot and not a literal demon? The guy seemed shocked when I asked for the refund in writing, being that it's not in our contract and it would have been easy to say that and never deliver, so idk what kind of parents he's used to dealing with.)

Any idea what to do for the rest of the summer, and how to deal with my kid when the whole thing has been so confusing? I'm torn between being privately mad at him and recognizing that the camp was probably just a terrible match for him this year for reasons I don't have access to.

Both parents work from home but we have busy meeting schedules and clients, no grandparents around, so this is a logistical nightmare but we hopefully won't need to quit our jobs.

Hi, looking for a sanity check here please.

BG: My kid just turned 5yo and is in pre-K 4. He's in his first year of full-day public school; previously he was in full-day daycare. He has never been much of a napper -- even when he was in the newborn room at daycare, he dropped his morning nap and they would put him in with the 1's room to hang out while the other babies napped away. He dropped his afternoon nap at some point over this past fall/winter, and is now awake from 7am to around 8:30pm, although if he seems tired we put him to bed earlier.

The Issue: He has been having issues with his current class but today's call home was a new one...apparently he's making noise during naptime and bothering friends, so they moved him into the library to read a book (and this is a bad thing). So I'm like, he is clearly not going to restart napping on command, and anyway he *needs* to lose the naptime asap because summer camp and K don't have them scheduled so we are extremely in the last legs of naptime being available. Given that, what do they want him to do during that time?

Their plan is for him to sit quietly in the dark and wait for it to be over. Is it me or is that not appropriate? I feel badly bc I think they seem understaffed even though the class well below the minimum for our area (there are 12 kids total), and I'm sure they don't have the bandwidth to take one guy to the library every day. He has ADHD and I have no idea how I would explain to him that "sit quietly in the dark" is a thing he needs to learn how to do. It's hard enough to get him sitting still quietly for the morning meeting and reading time.

We have an IEP meeting coming up and I'm tempted to just add an accommodation request but what say you all? I don't want to come in too hot if this is expected for kids this age.

These are made out of cord on embroidery hoops, from a Flax & Twine package, because I wanted to learn how to warp on a circle. Anyone else gifting any woven treasures this weekend?

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My 5yo has been recommended for OT through our school district, and we have our first IEP meeting coming up. This is our first brush with school admin. Technically we pursued this because he's lagging on gross motor skills, but they did a full observation and report. Reading through the report, they are definitely concerned about his behaviors and habits stemming from ADHD. He's not diagnosed yet but this seems like a sure thing in our future; my whole family is off the charts and he's exactly like all of us.

So of course I want to get him in to the OT, but what else should we expect? What should we be asking for or trying to guide them towards? What would be helpful for him in Kindergarten next year?

He's been in quite a bit of trouble in pre-K 4, but more day to day stuff. We did have one in person behavioral meeting with his teacher and the school social worker, but I think it was pretty productive. Most issues were saved until the parent teacher conferences, so they couldn't have been too disruptive.

I am kind of dreading all of this. I'm afraid they're going to blindside us somehow in this meeting and I want to be prepared.

One potential wrinkle -- we actually want to move him over to the next school down the road next year, which is bigger and has better support overall, but we're still on the waitlist for that. It's the same CPSE office in charge for both schools, though, so case managers wouldn't change.