PART 2 FOR LEARNING PROBLEMS

Friends and family will offer all sorts of "meaningful" advice and the mother, who is willing to help her child

in any way, will be only too grateful.

This book is aimed at helping parents pick up the little nudges and hints that indicate a problem from very

early in a child's life.

It is often very difficult for parents to find out and accept that their child has a problem. Often sub-consciously

this is because the parent realises that the child is behaving in a way similar to them and they had desperately

hoped the child would be different. A very real illustration would be my facial features. When I was pregnant

all I wished and hope for, beyond a healthy child, was that they would not inherit my Italian nose. ( Nothing

to do with genes of course!)

A very dear friend, who passed away, once commented that although I was pretty, it was really a big pity about

my nose. I grew up fiercely determined that none of my children should suffer the same fate ( as if I could change it!)

It is the same with parents who grew up struggling to cope academically at school or with sport. They desperately hope that their children will grow up to be doctors and world class sportsmen. When this does not happen, they are amazed and terribly disappointed.

Just as my Italian features were hereditary and part of my make-up and heritage, so a learning problem is hereditory.

Not the problem as such, but the tendency not to complete brain patterns. Just as the parents did not complete

their brain patterns.

There is a great deal that can be done to overcome this problem but acceptance of hereditory features and phenomena,

is the first step in any healing or improvement. We are born with our own unique set of genes heredited from our

parents.

GUIDE BOOK FOR PARENTS

Your Second Spring will start to publish on this blog articles from Laura Rip who will write about being a parent and about learning problems...
She will guide parents with these articles and teach parents to find themselves if their child has a learning problem... Laura has been working in a special school for children having learning problems...
She is writing a guide book for parents.

Have you ever felt that you wished you knew more? This book is about your child's development and how to evaluate whether

he/she possibly needs help. All too often one hears the teacher say one of the following

1. The child is a later developer

2. He will mature

3. A little active

4. DONT WORRY it will get better

Fathers and mothers make the following  excuses eg.

1. I never crawled

2. I was a late developer

3. I always bumped into things

4. I never went to bed early.

I am a firm believer in a mother's intuition. Mothers have an inkling of their child's problem intuitively from and early age

but because they are not qualified, they have to rely on professional opnions as to whether their child has a problem. They push

their niggling voice into the background and listent to other people's opinions instead.

YOU  are your child's best friend! Your love, care and support are all your child has and needs. You are the one

who will have to support and fight for your child. He/she is not capable of doing this for himself.

I have seen so many people scurrying from one professional to the next, trying every therapy available in the hope

that they will strike it lucky and find a cure.

This book is aimed at informing parents as to what they should keep a look out for. Neurotic parents are very often parents

who have picked up a problem with their child and are desparate to help but do not know what the norm is, who to turn to

and what should be done.

 ...you will find more soon...