Does anyone have a child older than 9yrs.old or an adult with "mild" C.P. - Cerebral Palsy Message Board

KIDSAREGREAT! · 05-28-2004, 09:16 AM

HI, my child is 9 and goes to a small school where everyone is kind and understanding of his C.P. maybe a little too much!

He is the only kid there with a physcial disability. It mainly affects his legs and balence but he can walk independtly. The other kids always want to help him out, [which is great!

] sometimes he lets them and other times he tells them no thanks. The problem is that when they play kick-ball at school, the other kids never want to count him out no matter what he does [they're trying to be nice to him and they don't want to lose].
He comes home so upset b/c of this. I asked him if they counted him out and his team lost, would he feel the same? and he said yes b/c at least they counted what he did good or bad. My son can do pretty much anything the others can just s l o w e r . I talked to the teacher and she said she could say somthing to the kids, but as a mom, I don't want the other kids mad at him for losing the game. I also don't want his self-esteem to take a nose dive.

Any kind of input anyone has would be greatly appreciated!

Zagreus · 05-28-2004, 06:31 PM

I just showed your question to my son, who recently turned ten and also has mild CP that affects his left side. He has worn a brace since he was two.

He wants to answer. What follows is his response:

This is what I would do if I were in that situation: I don't think it would hurt his feelings if the kids were to count it as an out and that the your son should talk to the kids first and if that does not work the teacher should talk to them.

KIDSAREGREAT! · 05-28-2004, 06:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Zagreus

what I would do if I were in that situation: I don't think it would hurt his feelings if the kids were to count it as an out and that the your son should talk to the kids first and if that does not work the teacher should talk to them.

My son says that your answer to my problem is good. He agreed that it wouldn't hurt his feelings if they counted him out as long as it counts. we'll probably talk to the teacher if that's what it takes. Thank-you sooo much for answering!

Zagreus · 05-28-2004, 07:11 PM

You're welcome

Deborah Lee · 06-01-2004, 07:52 AM

I have mild CP and when i was in school and it was raining outside and we were supposed to play a sport in gym class we would do it inside and every time i would run as fast as i could to get to the base ( i remember playing softball) and the kids would make a point to throw it to first base really fast. I never got on any bases. but i always tried it didnt seem bad at the time but looking back i think i wasnt looking at how those kids really looked at me and that that i was different. It didnt really start to bug me until high school. i wanted to be "normal" and i never could be what i didnt realize though is that nobody is normal nobody can be perfect have a perfect like etc. It just cant happen, have faith that your son is doing the best he can and making a couple of friends if not more.