RhondaR wrote:
My husband and I looked at each other - and we can't decide if he said that because he DOES get teased every once in a while and just really doesn't notice or care, or if it's that he does know, and that's his way of dealing with it. We tend to suspect it's a little of both - which just makes me want to hurry up and get a diagnosis so that I can go to the school district and get that IEP process going. He's only 7, but if we don't start getting him the proper services soon, it's just going to make adolescence that much harder, and I don't want that for him.
Encourage him to be an interesting person and not to care about teasing. Teach him to be polite to others and to take turns. Teach him that his behavior affects other people. Teach him to ask: "are you serious?" And teach him that some teasing is not serious. I was teased, but not bullied in school. My mother taught me that teasing was bad behavior on the part of others and I accepted that. It is a lot easier to deflect teasing when you have a positive sense of self and that is something parents can control.
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23 Apr 2007, 1:53 pm
