If only there was a rule book!

[Notonaschoolnight]

Hope you don't mind me joining you I'm usually in the doghouse if I'm anywhere but I doubt that's the best place to have a whinge about how I'm meant to tackle encouraging independence safely for my dd with downs who'll be going to mainstream comp in sept (sats results level 3 literacy level 1/2 numeracy which is unusually academically able for a child with Downs this neck of the woods)

It's hit me how her nt peers have gone from being as equally wrapped in cotton wool as my dd, all of them dropped off and picked up from primary to all of a sudden, on transition visits, walking over a mile or getting a bus on their own.

I wasn't ready and the senco didn't expect us to be so I did the drop off & pick up as usual and will do in sept (both slightly early to avoid the crowds)

But at what point do I encourage her to do more for herself. In the home she sorts out her own baths, I'm going to have her hair cut shorter so she can have a go at doing her own hair, she boils a kettle to make drinks and supernoodles (in a fashion , bless )

Last summer I let her play outside at 10y, but not cross roads but she hasn't got friends of her own so that was short lived and lately she spends a lot of time in a room. I'm hoping this will be temporary, there'll be a lot of disabled children at comp where there was none at primary.

Sorry this is really long I wanted to explain where I'm at hoping some of you might have advice on next steps

Thank you for reading