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| Jimmy on the first day of third grade. |
Jimmy said the most interesting thing to me tonight. He was really frustrated. Frustrated in writing a simple word in his social studies homework and had a meltdown. Finally, he blurted out "everything is different!" I asked, "what exactly is different?" And he replied "everything around me is different!!" He said this with tears in his eyes. I asked if it was that things were "different" or that things were "hard"...he admitted that things were hard. We took a break from homework and then came back after a spell, and he felt better and got it done, although he wanted me to be there with him when he did it. But this was a real moment of true communication for him. Third grade is hard. Difference is hard. Transitions are hardest of all.
