USC's Kevon Seymour #13 breaks up a pass intended for Washington State's Gabe Marks #9 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Saturday, September 7, 2013. (Photo by Hans. And he just happened to be standing on the USC sideline, laminated play sheet in hand and perplexed look on his face. My parents were put on a list to be rescued. I didn't know but being put on a list meant, they were one of many hundreds to be rescued. It would be hours before anyone made it there. Dad finally got through to 911 and some nice folks in a boat who were in the neighbourhood picked them up. But I have learned to remind myself that is doesn't much matter if Gabe finishes high school at eighteen or twenty-five. We'll get there. If it takes him three years to learn to read, that's okay! I continue to meet him where he is at, without ever showing my personal fears or frustrations with his progress (or lack thereof.).

Gabriel is my first grader. We use the first grade label pretty loosely though. Academically he is between a kindergarten and first grade level I would say, but he has the maturity of an older child. We will never know how old Gabe really is. He has been bone scanned but those aren’t perfectly accurate. Film Naruto Vs Pain Full Bahasa Indonesia. He has all of his adult teeth and is getting ready to pass our oldest son Seth, who is nearly ten, in height.

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His feet have grown five sizes in a year and a half. The made up birthday on his Liberian birth certificate tells us he is seven years old (yeah right!) We chose to celebrate what we called his eight birthday earlier this summer, but we suspect that he could be as much as a few years older than that even. I am telling you all of this because for me, homeschooling Gabe has truly been a lesson in letting go, and I think that has helped me regarding all my children. I have had to let go of expectations of advancement associated with age. From what I know, adopted children often lag academically for a number of reasons, all of which could be true of Gabe. Longterm malnutrition, an early childhood environment that lacked the stimulation that children in the U.S. Typically receive, and psychological trauma are just a few factors that we have to consider.

In addition, despite the fact that Gabe joined our family speaking Liberian English, even Liberian English wasn’t his first language, and there are many words in our language that he still doesn’t know or understand. Our first goal with Gabriel was attachment and to teach him how to be part of our family, but I have been also been working on the three R’s: reading, writing, and arithmetic for about a year and a half now (well for us it is really the four R’s because religion is in there too!) I am only just beginning to see some real progress. As a homeschooling mom there is something frightening about having a child that doesn’t seem to be learning even after the same lessons have been taught over and over.

But I have learned to remind myself that is doesn’t much matter if Gabe finishes high school at eighteen or twenty-five. We’ll get there.

If it takes him three years to learn to read, that’s okay! I continue to meet him where he is at, without ever showing my personal fears or frustrations with his progress (or lack thereof.) He is growing in much more important areas such as learning to behave like a child who is loved and who trusts his parents. Gabe and Larkspur both learned their letter sounds last year, but I will mention the materials I used for that. I made sandpaper letters using the templates in to teach them, and on the advice of another adoptive parent, we also temporarily kept a television in the house and they watched phonics videos which honestly were the best thing ever for teaching those letter sounds! Gabriel also worked through the. He knows his consonant sounds well now, and Larkspur and I review with the sandpaper letters.