Posted by Dinah on November 1, 2005, at 7:40:17
I really want to move and never experience another hurricane like this again.
One of the major things that's stopping me is that I worry about my son. We've found a wonderful school for him that shelters him from a lot of the unkindness that children heap on one another. He has a circle of friends there, and not many people who torment him.
He's at another school right now, and I'm reminded how important those qualities are for him. Honestly, he's not very resilient, and he's somewhat lacking in social skills despite our best efforts. Sigh. Just like his mom. He's miserable right now. I guess that if he were there longer he'd make a circle of friends and be less unhappy, but I'm not sure. He has some qualities that make him vulnerable to the less kind children of the world. And there are some things he does that we can't seem to convince him aren't guaranteed to win friends.
I hate the idea of uprooting him from the nest I so carefully made for him and tossing him out into the big world.
I also am remembering that he's almost at the age I was when I fell apart. And while there was more than school involved in my breakdown, a change of school and becoming my new school's designated picked on kid played a large part of it.
Maybe it's worth staying here until he graduates, and taking the risk that this could happen again and that next time we might not be so "lucky" and lose a significant portion of our net worth and personal belongings.
poster:Dinah
thread:574072
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