All things dull and ugly...

[tigerlily78]

Heather, I will keep my fingers crossed for you that the new student works out. As a parent of an Aspy kid, I agree with you that it seems like maybe this mom is expecting too much. From my own experience, I prefer to defer to the expertise and insight of a professional teacher until such point as it becomes CLEAR that a change needs to be made. If the kid is loving it, I think that speaks volumes about the benefit he could get from working with you. Enthusiasm for learning is one of the most important ingredients... the methods are often not that important.

I can really relate to what you wrote about your inlaws. Mine are also pretty crummy people. The only difference is my H determined long before I did that they were crummy people and he wanted little to do with them. I tried to keep a bridge between H and son and inlaws for much longer than I probably should have give how they treat people. We haven't even spoken to them in a year and half, except a few very brief phone calls even though they live 20 minutes away. In my situation though I kind of feel like if H brought OW around to inlaws and they were acting like everything was swell, that my H would be faking it. Sure, the inlaws don't like me anymore really, but H doesn't actually like them either. :P