emilyhope

O My Goodness just what I needed

I recently invited over my grandfather's brother, Uncle Doug for icecream cake to celebrate both my husband and my grandfather's birthday... This was on Facebook because he lives a state away but is currently nearby in their vacation home at the beach. No response except to put a post up on Harry Reid complaining about the tax hike and his Mormonism... I was a little shocked when I saw this Uncle Doug was recently diagnosed with bone cancer and told he has 18 months to live, he is a christian however, but my husband and our family are the only LDS members... the rest of my family are non believers or a mix of "yes we believe"... but don't go to any church. Its really sad that this could be one of the last opportunities we could have to get our families together, and he is refusing to even acknowledge my invite.

Nursery is just playtime at our ward Landon is at the age where he is asking questions and seeking those early fundamentals that he could be receiving in a regular Sunday School classroom like the one I went to when I was little, I grew up Southern Baptist. So why should I try to argue with a Primary President about what I know is best and a more conducive learning environment for my child. There is no rush, but he is not learning songs in there and they don't get more than a brief literally 1 to 2 minute lesson. They need to have a classroom for 1-2 yr olds and separate the 2-3 yr olds, and so on. Landon will be a few day away from 4 years old before can go into Sunbeams... Now how is a 4 year old supposed to learn anything with a bunch of 18 month olds screaming under tables? The system and rule book needs revamping and I know I'm not the only Mom who thinks this.

I too am having an issue with my son in Primary, but am hoping for a better outcome... See in his nursery class there are 15 other kids! And everyone knows a child with Autism or ADD benefits from a smaller class size right next door in the sun beams only 4 children all 3 years of age just a couple months older than my son, born 25 of Jan, making him also 3 1/2 years old. Now on the other hand in Nursery most of kids in there are barely 18 months old to 2 yrs of age... Its very overwhelming and over crowded in there and he can't learn any type of lesson in that environment, So why not put him with the group of children closer to his age? Isn't that what we all strive for as parents? To help our children and place in their best learning environment? I also posted a forum on here titled Autism to read more... In the end I feel we know what will work for our children and some rules need to do a little bending otherwise you're just going to scare members off.

Hi I have a 3 year old birthday Jan 25 who could and most likely does have some form of Autism. He does the hand flapping when he gets too excited and he at one time did head banging and had a hard time with eye contact BUT not so much anymore, thankfully. He is actually very smart he can count to five and sometimes with out error to ten. He knows the alphabet song and colors, we've worked with him and he was on baby net at one time... Well the issue I'm currently seeking advise in is our ward in SC has about 15 kids in Nursery that is on the high end but it varies more or less. Then in the Sunbeam class there is only 4. Children with autism and really any child with a short attention span do better in a smaller classroom, everyone knows that. Well I asked around and the Sister in charge of Sunbeams had no problem with my son in her class. But everyone else in Primary did... I'm not trying to break any rules or get special treatment. As a mother I just want whats best for my children all of them, and I know he could get so much more out of Church on Sunday. Isn't that what we all want for our children, Landon loves church so much and he talks about Jesus and God, and he loves reading / singing hymns. So where do I go from here?