Haven't Yet Found My Way

[Mystik]

Had the parent-teacher conference tonight. Even though I texted H Tuesday morning to remind him, he was a no-show. I'm not going to tell him what she said, if he was so concerned he would have come, if he wants to know what's going on he can call her. I'm not a messenger boy. The teacher said she would be more than happy to talk to him so the burden of sharing DS's report wasn't on me. I told the teacher his mistress just had their baby so that was probably why he didn't come.

As it turns out, it was a good thing H never showed. She said she was glad I opened with the remark about H because she wanted to talk to me but didn't want to come across as crossing the line too much. She said that DS is very pre-occupied with H and I getting back together and she is really worried about his emotional state. He'll write in his journal at school that he had a sleepover at Daddy's, two nights connected but he really needs his mommy and daddy to be together. He'll make comments about it to her, as well. She does the best she can with brushing if off by telling him how lucky he is that we both love him so much or something. I explained that I've been struggling with depression and DS picks up on it. She said she feels that some days he is not fully with her, and the home situation is contributing to his attention problems because his mind is on me or H and me and not on school. I told her DS is seeing a counselor but not opening up so well there so she offered to speak to his counselor and fill her in on what she's observed. She said DS also gets angry very easily, usually when he is working on reading and says the wrong word and she corrects him. He gets very frustrated with trying to read, probably because he's not having an easy time with it. I asked if we should look into extra tutoring for him and she said not just yet, to work on the behavior stuff first and if come next marking period he's still struggling with reading then we can consider tutoring. He is very behind where he should be for first grade reading level.