spider
20 Jun 06, 01:17 PM
Well, after 9 months of preparation, fighting with the school to let him go, then me having the colly-wobbles for the past 2 months about making the right decision to let him go.................the time finally came yesterday morning for Ben to go to the Isle of Wight for his Y6 trip!!!!
We have been doing the social story for the past couple of weeks, I think he's got the gist that he is going without us, that there are 2 LSA's and his teacher from his class that will be looking after him (though not all at the same time!!!!), and that he isn't coming home until Friday!!!!
He was awake yesterday at 5:30am and came bursting into my bedroom saying "Going to the Isle of Wight!!" so I had to insist on him going back to bed for another hour at least!!!!:erm:
When I did get him up at 7am, his first words again was "Isle of Wight"!!! He was so excited and couldn't wait to get out of the door to go and catch the coach!!!!
When we arrrived at school, he politely told me to "got to go, bye bye Mummy" and was attempting to push me out of the door - I had to be quite insistant that I wanted to wave to him when he was on the coach!!!!!!:omg:
So, off they all went, Ben was waving and saying bye, he didn't seem in the least bit worried. I texted his LSA to see how the journey was going about 3 hours later and she said fine, he was being v.good!!!! LSA rang last night and said he'd eaten his tea (chips!!!) and had ice-cream too and was playing at the adventure playground having a great time!!!
This morning's text said he'd slept right through, had a big breakfast (though quite what I don't know!!!) and that he was making sand castles on the beach!!!!:d:
I've been a right nightmare over the past few weeks with all the worry, Sunday night was dreadful, the effects of putting a packet of Jaffa Cakes into his bag was floods of tears, stupid I know, but this is such a massive step for Ben (and for Me too!!!!) that I thought I'd never get through Monday without having a complete breakdown!!!!! (well, after he'd left, I was very brave before he got on the coach!!!)
I know I was worried about my eldest son going on his Y6 trip, but somehow this is so different, the knowing that the school didn't really want him to go, me making a stand about it and worrying that I was doing this for me rather than Ben, the amount of personal care that he needs, but I'm glad that I've seen it through, he needs to be more independant and experience these things, and besides, his new secondary school do lots of residential trips in the years to come, so it's better to be sooner rather than later!!
Sorry, have rambled on slightly, those of you who are in a similar position to me will know how the brain is not functioning properly at the moment!!!!!:o: :o:
We have been doing the social story for the past couple of weeks, I think he's got the gist that he is going without us, that there are 2 LSA's and his teacher from his class that will be looking after him (though not all at the same time!!!!), and that he isn't coming home until Friday!!!!
He was awake yesterday at 5:30am and came bursting into my bedroom saying "Going to the Isle of Wight!!" so I had to insist on him going back to bed for another hour at least!!!!:erm:
When I did get him up at 7am, his first words again was "Isle of Wight"!!! He was so excited and couldn't wait to get out of the door to go and catch the coach!!!!
When we arrrived at school, he politely told me to "got to go, bye bye Mummy" and was attempting to push me out of the door - I had to be quite insistant that I wanted to wave to him when he was on the coach!!!!!!:omg:
So, off they all went, Ben was waving and saying bye, he didn't seem in the least bit worried. I texted his LSA to see how the journey was going about 3 hours later and she said fine, he was being v.good!!!! LSA rang last night and said he'd eaten his tea (chips!!!) and had ice-cream too and was playing at the adventure playground having a great time!!!
This morning's text said he'd slept right through, had a big breakfast (though quite what I don't know!!!) and that he was making sand castles on the beach!!!!:d:
I've been a right nightmare over the past few weeks with all the worry, Sunday night was dreadful, the effects of putting a packet of Jaffa Cakes into his bag was floods of tears, stupid I know, but this is such a massive step for Ben (and for Me too!!!!) that I thought I'd never get through Monday without having a complete breakdown!!!!! (well, after he'd left, I was very brave before he got on the coach!!!)
I know I was worried about my eldest son going on his Y6 trip, but somehow this is so different, the knowing that the school didn't really want him to go, me making a stand about it and worrying that I was doing this for me rather than Ben, the amount of personal care that he needs, but I'm glad that I've seen it through, he needs to be more independant and experience these things, and besides, his new secondary school do lots of residential trips in the years to come, so it's better to be sooner rather than later!!
Sorry, have rambled on slightly, those of you who are in a similar position to me will know how the brain is not functioning properly at the moment!!!!!:o: :o: