Comments on: Kids Will Be Kids http://melissawiley.com/blog/2007/09/25/kids-will-be-kids/ Children's Book Author Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:01:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Diana http://melissawiley.com/blog/2007/09/25/kids-will-be-kids/#comment-5227 Diana Sat, 29 Sep 2007 03:02:41 +0000 http://72.29.64.190/~mwiley/blog/2007/09/25/kids-will-be-kids/#comment-5227 So true, Lissa!! My little guy with a trach several years ago was crying in one of our many clinics....I was frantic, is his reflux bothering him..is his trach getting ready to occlude, was his trach ties too tight..what?!? what?!? was it??? He had a dirty diaper....calmed down as soon as I cleaned him up...Now that I have another special needs baby....with a trach....and she is five weeks old....and fussy a lot, I keep going down the special needs checklist, but you know what? I think she just likes to be held, and gets overwhelmed like all newborns do.... Your post was timely, thanks!! So true, Lissa!! My little guy with a trach several years ago was crying in one of our many clinics….I was frantic, is his reflux bothering him..is his trach getting ready to occlude, was his trach ties too tight..what?!? what?!? was it??? He had a dirty diaper….calmed down as soon as I cleaned him up…Now that I have another special needs baby….with a trach….and she is five weeks old….and fussy a lot, I keep going down the special needs checklist, but you know what? I think she just likes to be held, and gets overwhelmed like all newborns do….
Your post was timely, thanks!!

]]> By: Karen Edmisten http://melissawiley.com/blog/2007/09/25/kids-will-be-kids/#comment-5226 Karen Edmisten Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:59:39 +0000 http://72.29.64.190/~mwiley/blog/2007/09/25/kids-will-be-kids/#comment-5226 What a great story! So true. What a great story! So true.

]]> By: MelanieB http://melissawiley.com/blog/2007/09/25/kids-will-be-kids/#comment-5225 MelanieB Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:18:05 +0000 http://72.29.64.190/~mwiley/blog/2007/09/25/kids-will-be-kids/#comment-5225 Reminds me of my experience with my first grade teacher. She called me up to her desk on the first day of school and asked if I would read a passage to her. She read my refusal as an inability to read and I was put in the beginning readers group. I went home mad (I'd been able to read since before kindergarten.) and complained to my parents who soon set her straight: I was just shy and didn't want to perform on cue for a stranger in front of a room full of strangers. Reminds me of my experience with my first grade teacher. She called me up to her desk on the first day of school and asked if I would read a passage to her. She read my refusal as an inability to read and I was put in the beginning readers group. I went home mad (I’d been able to read since before kindergarten.) and complained to my parents who soon set her straight: I was just shy and didn’t want to perform on cue for a stranger in front of a room full of strangers.

]]> By: patience http://melissawiley.com/blog/2007/09/25/kids-will-be-kids/#comment-5224 patience Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:12:41 +0000 http://72.29.64.190/~mwiley/blog/2007/09/25/kids-will-be-kids/#comment-5224 I've just finished reading your story over at Bonny Glen archives about how you started writing the Little House books while Jane was in hospital, so this post really made me smile. I have an opposite kind of story to yours. I remember when Rose was in intensive care after surgery, barely able to move, barely able to speak, and desperate for a drink because she had a blistered throat from the ventilator tube, she asked a nurse for a drink. The nurse refused to give it to her until she said please. !! In my experience, some doctors and nurses were so used to very sick children, they sometimes forgot they were just kids - hurting and frightened. (Others were lovely, of course - I'm not knocking doctors or nurses!) Anyway, Wonderboy sounds so cute. I’ve just finished reading your story over at Bonny Glen archives about how you started writing the Little House books while Jane was in hospital, so this post really made me smile.

I have an opposite kind of story to yours. I remember when Rose was in intensive care after surgery, barely able to move, barely able to speak, and desperate for a drink because she had a blistered throat from the ventilator tube, she asked a nurse for a drink. The nurse refused to give it to her until she said please. !! In my experience, some doctors and nurses were so used to very sick children, they sometimes forgot they were just kids - hurting and frightened. (Others were lovely, of course - I’m not knocking doctors or nurses!)

Anyway, Wonderboy sounds so cute.

]]> By: JoVE http://melissawiley.com/blog/2007/09/25/kids-will-be-kids/#comment-5223 JoVE Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:22:47 +0000 http://72.29.64.190/~mwiley/blog/2007/09/25/kids-will-be-kids/#comment-5223 "Sometimes special needs kids are just kids." That needs to go on a button. Or a t-shirt. And be worn to all IEP meetings and other interactions with folks who tend to only see the needs and not the kids. “Sometimes special needs kids are just kids.”

That needs to go on a button. Or a t-shirt. And be worn to all IEP meetings and other interactions with folks who tend to only see the needs and not the kids.

]]> By: Rachel http://melissawiley.com/blog/2007/09/25/kids-will-be-kids/#comment-5222 Rachel Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:17:35 +0000 http://72.29.64.190/~mwiley/blog/2007/09/25/kids-will-be-kids/#comment-5222 Can you become a little OVERLY qualified for dealing with kids maybe? ;) Can you become a little OVERLY qualified for dealing with kids maybe? ;)

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