Extracurriculars

I am a Speech/Language Pathologist who supports dyslexia in my private practice in collaboration with dyslexia therapists. A child with Dyslexia's brain is usually exhausted by the end of the day! I suggest audio books/ using colored rulers can help for the eyes to focus on the sentences being read and not visually getting over-stimulated, setting realistic goals so the child feels successful, having the child work with a reading tutor who can make reading fun and interesting so you don't have to have this battle at home. Remember this time will pass! It is challenging but hang in there with them!

Here is what worked for us and I still battle this today. It is tricky, once you start it is near impossible to go backwards and I wish I could go WAY back! We did sleepovers with only certain families in elementary and then that became challenging to explain to your child why you can at this house but, not that house? And who knows what they said to their friends. It's a terrible battle that little minds just can't understand and just as challenging with older kids too - although it's a tad easier to reason with an older child...sometimes! We pushed to more late-overs in middle school and then just left it at that for a long time - although there were some sleepovers thrown in there however, very limited.

Now that my kids are older teens in High School - we still do not prefer sleepovers and say no often - staying busy helps as we all know sleep is important. And I actually feel different about them for our daughter vs. our son which is extra challenging. All this to say - kids just love them so it's so hard to say no, so I wish I would have just said no from the very beginning as just a standard rule.

We’ve always done a flat rate 🤷🏻‍♀️ “can you babysit 3 nights 4 days xyz is our flat rate per day.” The hourly+flat rate overnight would work too. Prob depends on skill level-career nanny vs college girl

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I am a former kindergarten teacher and I think if the teachers are not recommending retention, then you should do some tutoring over the summer and send her to 1st grade. Chat me for more info!