2025 was a year of growth and challenge for me, especially related to Nadine . Nadine is a quiet and shy girl who needs familiar and steady environment. For the first 4 years of her life, she got a routine to go to daily to a daycare called Kindercare , so her friends were pretty much kids that she already knew since she was a baby. Unfortunately things went downhill with the daycare so we had to move her mid-year during Pre-K class to St. Agnes School . Since Nadine was in St. Agnes, I started to observed a pattern of high anxiety. The trend continued when she transitioned to Starkweather Elementary for Kindergarten . Kindergarten transition was rough to say the least. Every now and then I got concerned calls and emails from teachers because she often shutdown and refused to participate in the class activities. Outside classroom, meltdowns happened frequently, when she was introduced to a new unfamiliar activities or people. We enrolled her to a few activities, started with C...
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