'At 5 years old, he worked to undo the negative self-talk his brain had begun to hardwire within the walls of his preschool. He had been in a perpetual state of embarrassment & punishment while at school, and we had no idea how deep-rooted the pain was.'
The debrief meeting with our son’s play therapist was friendly and helpful. She was reviewing our newest goals as we took notes on the handouts she provided. And then it happened — she shared a powerful statement that devastated but did not surprise us: “He continues to ask me ‘Did you know my preschool teachers didn’t like me?’” These words, she said, came over and over again from the heart of our five-year-old son as he sorted through his school experiences during therapy.
As his mother, this was obviously heartbreaking to hear. As a teacher, this drove me to learn as much as I could aboutand share it with other educators. I began a mission: to never allow another child to process their differences in such a painful way, especially at the hands of educators.ADHD characteristics in preschool
Their attempts at making him adhere to the expected behaviors of a “normal preschooler” wounded his heart; it was imprinted with the idea that his teachers did not like him. In only nine hours per week of preschool, his mind and heart formed the idea that he was unfit for his class and that he was unliked by those who were there to love him. Those wounds would ultimately take months of therapy to begin to heal.As an educator myself, I have had to have many difficult conversations with parents.
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