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Can you imagine your child forced on medication because the school says "we got a problem child here"? We really have to look deep because all children are not mold the same and that doesn't mean one odd ball would equal "problem." I believe in potential. And hopefully I will find out just that about my two sensational kids.

Some child jumps around and can't sit still like my Clemmie, but that doesn't mean she can't learn. She can, but she just have to jump around and learn. She picks up languages and nuances and spits them out like she knew them from birth. She can pronounce words whether in English, Cantonese, French or Mandarin perfectly as a 3 year old can and retains those words in the growing brain of her.

I will have to help her work with transitioning to school and it may take her months, but right now she is very home sick and wants to go back home. We were looking at old photos and she said to me that she wants to go back and maybe go to an hotel to stay for a bit before going back home.

A lot has been going on this week. We started summer program at Les Petits Lascars located in Central. It was too much of a rush and Clemmie did not take it well and eventually she got kicked out of the class. I wished I had insisted to stay with her to transition her. It took her a month to transition at Bright Horizons. And with everything going on I can just imagine what is going in her head. Her anxiety and all. Theo on the other hand was doing well. Having a playmates made all the difference and he enjoyed the class as much as he can of understanding French. I still don't know what is the right decision right now. I really hope a miracle would happen in September that he could go to an English School Foundation system that has integrated program for speech therapy and occupational therapy.

I do hope in the near future that other teachers would not see them as problems, but help bring out their talents in them as much as I would love to see them blossom. The critical time is now at their age.

I truly urge other parents to seek help as soon as they can because the window of opportunity crucial at the age from birth to 6.

The OT said Clemmie is a very smart kid, smart enough to tell her what to do and smart enough to question with her curiosity. Theo will need to let go some control, but then sometimes being a perfectionist is required because sometime things are not allowed to cut corners. I hope he will develop his own rating system later on and have some flexibilities in between.

Theo's PT session was great. Rachel was able to see how much he could do and now we can all focus on his weakness and strengthen them. He is still weak at the arm and down to the fingers with is strength and grips. And also at the hips. His overall gross motor skills are okay. We need to do a bit of fine tuning of his fine motor skills that would lead to writing.

I am looking into getting the Handwriting without Tears program.