Matthew's teacher called this afternoon to talk about parent-teacher conferences that are being set up for all of her students over the course of the next week. And then she told me that she and the teacher assistant have been concerned about Matthew. It seems that over the course of the past month - starting a couple of weeks before Christmas break - they have noticed that Matthew has been much quieter. Seems like that would be a good thing, right? Only it means that he hasn't been participating at group time and at times seems like he isn't paying attention. And she said that when they are in their small reading groups, she will ask Matthew a question about the story, and his mind will be somewhere else completely. It isn't affecting his academics at this point, but it could in time.
From what his teacher told me and from what I suspected, this is completely different behavior from what she had seen in him from the beginning of the year. Ironic how this started happening right around when Alan lost his job, huh? His teacher and I talked about that a bit. She said that Matthew told them right away when the job loss occurred. Being the sensitive and loving teacher that she is, she tried to reassure him that everything with his family would be just fine.
And we are fine - really fine, in fact. It is literally amazing to see how God is using others to help bless us with our needs and how He is multiplying the money we already have to cover our needs and how He is teaching us how much we think we need that we don't need and how He is bringing Alan job interviews at just the right time. But evidently this job loss is hitting our little son in ways we were not aware of.
Matthew has been so completely the same as always at home - lively, talkative, silly, fun, fairly cooperative and obedient, etc. Alan and I don't hide what's going on, but we do make a point to be positive and focus on God's blessings. We want our children to feel secure in the ability of our loving Heavenly Father to provide for us. Our Matthew is our little internalizer, though, and clearly he is more affected by our circumstances than we realized. And knowing that he is worrying, even though he isn't able to verbalize that in so many words to us, is one of the hardest things we've faced in this situation.
From what his teacher told me and from what I suspected, this is completely different behavior from what she had seen in him from the beginning of the year. Ironic how this started happening right around when Alan lost his job, huh? His teacher and I talked about that a bit. She said that Matthew told them right away when the job loss occurred. Being the sensitive and loving teacher that she is, she tried to reassure him that everything with his family would be just fine.
And we are fine - really fine, in fact. It is literally amazing to see how God is using others to help bless us with our needs and how He is multiplying the money we already have to cover our needs and how He is teaching us how much we think we need that we don't need and how He is bringing Alan job interviews at just the right time. But evidently this job loss is hitting our little son in ways we were not aware of.
Matthew has been so completely the same as always at home - lively, talkative, silly, fun, fairly cooperative and obedient, etc. Alan and I don't hide what's going on, but we do make a point to be positive and focus on God's blessings. We want our children to feel secure in the ability of our loving Heavenly Father to provide for us. Our Matthew is our little internalizer, though, and clearly he is more affected by our circumstances than we realized. And knowing that he is worrying, even though he isn't able to verbalize that in so many words to us, is one of the hardest things we've faced in this situation.
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