Hey guys, welcome back to preview lines.

It's podcast, it's Sarah and Whitney.

Okay, so today's a special one. It is a little different. We have

Certain episodes that we get vulnerable and personal. That's right. I know I've had in my NICU experience one and I've talked about the daycare. Now it's Whitney's turn. That's right. So this episode is really going to be about advocating for our children. Even if we don't really know how to do that or how to navigate that process.

So my older daughter, Sydney, she started kindergarten this year about mid-August, so about three-and-half weeks into the school year her teacher had

emailed me saying hey I just wanted to let you know about some behaviors I'm

seeing out of Sydney and it was one of those where she was really

struggling to focus. She was kind of a daydreamer or space cadet. She was also

trying to sneak her work for other kids to do to help her out with.

Okay.

You know, she felt very discouraged.

There was one picture her teacher sent me with her head on her desk by 8 o'clock that morning.

She looked so defeated,

and it was one of those I asked the teacher,

I was like, you know, is she having like tantrums,

is she being belligerent, you and she wasn't she wasn't

being defiant she wasn't refusing to do the work but it was definitely one of those

you could tell that she wasn't focusing a whole lot that she did not

feel confident in her work and that this was just a struggle for her. Now that being said,

my kids are daycare kids. Sydney have been in daycare since 12

weeks old and did pre-K yeah so going to school was not new for her right and so I asked the teacher, I said, do you feel like this could be an A.D. A. D kind of thing, or is this, you know, a

transitionary adjustment period for kindergarten? Because again, she's my first five-year-old. This is the first time you're doing this. This is the first time I'm doing this. I don't honestly

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