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Thread #123935   Message #2735967
Posted By: CarolC
01-Oct-09 - 01:20 PM
Thread Name: BS: Home Education UK
Subject: RE: BS: Home Education UK
The best way for a child with learning disabilities to learn how to deal with a world that is not always supportive and caring is to instill in that child a very strong sense of self-esteem and self-confidence. This is something that only happens over a span of many years. When a child is thrown into a situation where their self-esteem and self-confidence is chipped away at and beaten down every single day for 12+ years, they will emerge from the school experience with absolutely no skills for coping with a world in which people are not always supportive and caring.

It's only by having a strong sense of self-worth and confidence in oneself that people are able to have a healthy and balanced approach to dealing with the larger world. The only way to instill such a strong sense of self-worth and confidence is to provide the child with opportunities to develop a success mentality. This is not done by setting the child up to fail as is so often done in schools with kids who are learning disabled.