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[quote=Anonymous]I'm struggling with my kid's dyslexia diagnosis.  It just feels like the tutoring is a huge, expensive slog, and that school is going to be disheartening and stressful. I'm not worried about the eventual outcomes for my kid--she's smart, kind and easy going, and I'm confident that she'll be fine--but the next 10 years of school are going to be REALLY challenging. So much of my identity as a kid came from doing well in school, and it's hard for me to watch her go from someone who saw herself as a "smart kid," in K, 1st and 2nd, to someone who sees herself as "dumb" in 3rd.  She says things like, "I'm a good kid because I don't get in trouble, but I'm the only good kid who isn't good at school--the rest of the good kids are smart at school and I'll never be smart at school because I'm bad at reading." I feed her tons of info about how dyslexic people are smart, about how she's excellent at math, and about how she's a good reader--her issue is that she's just a very SLOW reader.  We're doing a ton of expensive tutoring and I just feel....a little defeated.  I know there are much bigger problems out there, but I'm wondering if others can relate and what has helped.

For the record, with my kid, I'm trying to be the right mix of reassuring, positive and real.  She tends to dismiss all of my reassurance as "well, you're my mom, so you have to tell me I'm smart."

Ugh.[/quote]

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