Stymied by the local government

Why are the local governments trying to thwart me? I'm simply trying to get my son the help he needs. I've always know that he needs speech therapy. Now that he's settled in the 3 year old class, his need for speech therapy is becoming more pronounced, I'm only hoping that he doesn't have to have surgery on his tongue or anything.

But this is the dilemma. I live in Palm Beach county but I work and he attends school in Broward County. They are trying to tell me that I can't get help in Broward County. I'm like - this is a free service I understand, but I'm willing to pay someone to go to my son's school to give him therapy. You would think they'd be happy to get a paying customer. But God Forbid that they actually have to think through a process and find a solution for someone.

Each person I talk to is a total moron and only able to answer questiosn like it's a script. It's no wonder the county is bombed, we are staffed by a bunch of ignoramuses. Finally after talking to a clearly deaf and learning disabled woman who told me I had an attitude, I got a hold of a supervisor - the only sensible individual I'd spoken to all day. I told him my issue and he agreed with me that there had to be a way around the problem. The first thing he did was find two agencies who had offices in both Broward and Palm Beach County and gave me those numbers. Then he gave me the names of two officials so that I could contineu to find more answers. Finally - someone with a brain. He told me that I should continue to do whatever I needed to do to get my son the help he needed.

Is is any wonder that our children fall through the cracks? Some parents don't have the time or resources to spend 45 minutes on a phone or to hunt down resources. I plan to circumvent the system by using a Broward address and phone number to get the services I need for my son. This is what parents have to resort to circumvent stupid people with stupid rules.

An education in being male

So since my son was about 2 1/2 we've been trying to do the potty training thing. I figured that it would not be as easy as with a girl, but I never anticipated that I'd still be doing this almost a year later. I will agree that we weren't very aggressive with the training because he had so many other issues (hearing, fluid in ears, etc) but by the time we began to be aggressive we realized that he had no interest in potty training.

Anyway, about a month ago, we realized that this was really silly. He was 3 and needed to get with the program. We began some intensive work. Within a week, he'd gotten with the program. Now I can proudly say, that my son will go potty and do number 1 with great ease. I no logner have to help him, I simply send him on his way and he does his business. I don't know how simple that will be with number 2 on which he is still steadfastly holding on to using a pullup.

My greatest education, however, came when upon dropping my son to school one morning I took him to the bathroom to prevent any future accidents. While there he calmly walked to the urinal. I knew a moment's panic because I know nothing of urinals. There was another little boy standing beside him and I wanted to sneak a peak to see what he was doing but I know that that is strongly frowned upon in the men's room. Maybe they'd let me slide since I was female. Anyway, I pulled down his pants convinced he was going to have pee all over them. He then amazed me by pushing his lower body forward (pretty much like his next door neighbor) and there came forth a sream of pee. As he was about to finish, he reached up and pulled down the level and et voila, the urinal flushed. We washed our hands and left the bathroom.

All the way to work I was smiling. My son has just initiated me into the ancient male art of using a urinal.