On Wednesday morning, he got up early and said he didn't want to go to school. He had to do an oral book report. He reluctantly faced his fate and I worried about him – one day perhaps he'll have a kid and he'll understand how much a Mom wishes she could take away any difficult thing her child has to go through.
Since he has a new teacher in this class (the regular teacher went on maternity leave, we'd been working with the long-term sub, but now he's got a permanent replacement teacher). We hadn't interacted with her at all, though. I panicked a little bit and just sent her a quick heads up email to just say that Reed had struggled a bit with this kind of thing, so she'd be aware. She was really great and said she'd keep an eye on him and do her best to make him comfortable.
Then a little later, I got this email....
And he did an outstanding job on his speech! The class laughed at his explanation of his map-stealer grabbing the maps from Harvard and Yale. His was one of the better ones. I could tell he was nervous, but he fought through was very successful! I was so proud especially knowing about his anxiety! Please let me know if there is ever anything I can do for Reed – he is such a nice young man, and I enjoy having him in class.
YAHOO!! What a great note to get, all-around. We feel like we're raising a pretty good kid, but it's always nice to get this kind of confirmation from other people. Reed also said he thought it went pretty well, and wasn't as bad as he thought it would be. He was pretty worried about it, since it was his first time having to do something like that in high school – we tried to tell him it wasn't really different than middle school, it's all the same kids – but when you're anxious, you're anxious. I'm so proud that he did well!
Maybe we're making some progress!
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