I have been worried a while now about John Derek and his ability or lack of ability to read. The last few weeks I feel that the Lord has really guided me to know what I should do for him. I ended up talking to my neighbor a while ago about her son and the frustrations she has gone through with our school system. How she felt that they didn't help him until he was failing and now he is far behind his peers and that is is affecting him emotinally as well.
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I did not want this for my son so I sent an email to his teacher telling her his history and the learning concernses we have had. She wrote back and had set up a meeting with some other people at school to discuss him and discuss the best action we could take.
Derek and I attended that meeting yesterday. I was amazed at how strongly I felt the Spirit guiding me to know what to say and when to say it. They said that he is so close to being at grade level that maybe he just needs a little more practice. Then the vice principal asked if I wanted to have him evaluated. I immediately teared up and felt that this is exactly what he needs right now. Then I felt the words coming out of my mouth that I knew I had not put there. I explained that he was the oldest in his class, that we have already held him back, he has been in Kindergarten for 1 and 1/2 years, and that he really should be at the top of his class not the bottom. That finally convinced the teachers and they all agreed that he should be evaluated. I was so grateful to Heavenly Father for helping us out. As we left Derek said, "I could tell that the Spirit was with you so I just kept my mouth shut and let you keep going because you were saying exactly what needed to be said."
I am so grateful to a Heavenly Father who loves us and is helping our family out so much. Since Derek has been made Bishop Samantha has started therapy for her emotions, John Derek will now be evaluated for reading, and Maddie has started speech therapy. I think the Lord is taking care of us. We are working on things now that could be huge problems in the future. I feel that this is a blessing because of Derek's and our sacrifice. I really feel the Lord's hand in our lives and I cherish it.
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I did not want this for my son so I sent an email to his teacher telling her his history and the learning concernses we have had. She wrote back and had set up a meeting with some other people at school to discuss him and discuss the best action we could take.
Derek and I attended that meeting yesterday. I was amazed at how strongly I felt the Spirit guiding me to know what to say and when to say it. They said that he is so close to being at grade level that maybe he just needs a little more practice. Then the vice principal asked if I wanted to have him evaluated. I immediately teared up and felt that this is exactly what he needs right now. Then I felt the words coming out of my mouth that I knew I had not put there. I explained that he was the oldest in his class, that we have already held him back, he has been in Kindergarten for 1 and 1/2 years, and that he really should be at the top of his class not the bottom. That finally convinced the teachers and they all agreed that he should be evaluated. I was so grateful to Heavenly Father for helping us out. As we left Derek said, "I could tell that the Spirit was with you so I just kept my mouth shut and let you keep going because you were saying exactly what needed to be said."
I am so grateful to a Heavenly Father who loves us and is helping our family out so much. Since Derek has been made Bishop Samantha has started therapy for her emotions, John Derek will now be evaluated for reading, and Maddie has started speech therapy. I think the Lord is taking care of us. We are working on things now that could be huge problems in the future. I feel that this is a blessing because of Derek's and our sacrifice. I really feel the Lord's hand in our lives and I cherish it.
13 And whoso alayeth down his life in my cause, for my name’s sake, shall find it again, even life eternal.
14 Therefore, be not aafraid of your enemies, for I have decreed in my heart, saith the Lord, that I will bprove you in all things, whether you will abide in my covenant, ceven unto death, that you may be found worthy.
--Sometimes I fear the future. Fear the wickedness of people and what they might do that might change the way I live my life. For natural disasters and how they will change the dynamics around me. But then I remember the promises of my Heavenly Father, that I have no need to fear. That even if I died because of what I believe in that the Lord is still taking care of me. That this life is just a piece of our existence, that there is such a bigger picture that we can't even see. It's like being zoomed up on a photograph where you can barely make out a flower but as we zoom back we realize that we are part of an amazing meadow with mountains and streams but we never saw it because we were too focused on the flower and didn't know that there was more.
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