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[Snoskred]

Glad to see it turned out ok. Yay!

[Mr V]

It always chills me to the bone when I hear about parents coming into discussions and meetings with parents 'very prepared'... I've seen parents turn up to meetings about certain things with 'proof' involving newsletters and announcements or messages sent home up to two years previously... I mean... how anal do some of them have to be??

Glad to hear it all seemed to work out properly and you appear to be happy with the result. I've found that separate play areas works for a few days. Rotate the kid through the play areas so each kid gets the oval and each kid also gets the dodgy quiet room where only the kids with no friends end up. They HATE it!

All the best, it seems like everybody's involved and means well for the best for the kid.

Cheers.

[Jaycee]

It always chills me to the bone when I hear about parents coming into discussions and meetings with parents 'very prepared'... I've seen parents turn up to meetings about certain things with 'proof' involving newsletters and announcements or messages sent home up to two years previously... I mean... how anal do some of them have to be??

I definitely wasn't that prepared. I was more prepared in what I wanted the outcome of the meeting to be and what I wanted to discuss. If I hadn't thought about what I wanted to achieve in this meeting the restricted play area would have been all that happened which I don't think would have achieved much in the long term.

[Mr V]

Nah, that's fair enough. You sounded as though you had set yourselves and almost planned an ambush!

[FormerAdmin]

It always chills me to the bone when I hear about parents coming into discussions and meetings with parents 'very prepared'... I've seen parents turn up to meetings about certain things with 'proof' involving newsletters and announcements or messages sent home up to two years previously... I mean... how anal do some of them have to be??

Mr V,

oblique to the current topic, but interesting nevertheless - I have met doctors in the course of my work who are similarly chilled by PWPs - Patients With Printouts.

But there is a very good reason to be a PWP, and it goes something like this: there are more than 2,000 medicines on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Schedule in Australia. Your average GP knows of perhaps 500 of these because they are the ones commonly prescribed from day to day. If you have a medical condition that has a treatment option in the other 1,500, then you (as a PWP) may actually have a wider range of information on those treatment options than your GP. This disparity is not common, and it is less common once you start talking to specialists.

Now, to try and bring this back on topic - where the anal parents may be coming from is a position of a history of bad feelings between student and teacher - or perhaps they truly are anal compulsive/obsessive people looking to find fault wherever they could.

While the average quality of teaching is high in Australia, there are some bad apples in every barrel - I am certainly one who succeeded in spite of some of my teachers rather than because of them. Others, as I said earlier in this thread, were truly amazing people and I owe them much of what I am today. In retrospect, if my parents had been a little less succeptible to "white coat syndrome" and trusting of authority figures, then perhaps I may have had an easier run of it.

Best regards, Andrew

[leechbabe]

Ah yes after years of working in doctors surgeries and laughing at patients with their 'shopping lists' the shoe is now firmly on the other foot.

Not only do I have a 'shopping list' I have a whole arch binder sized folder of stuff about Heidi.  It goes to all our doctors visits, all our therapy visits and to Kinder and Early Intervention Centre.  That way if anyone has a question about what Person X said about situation Y I can pull the report / letter/ whatever out.  My memory for stuff is terrible and it just makes it easier to cart around the entire package.

[Mr V]

Yes, I was a little tongue in cheek there. I could never be as prepared or organised as that though - that's probably what makes me nervous about them!