DD (6) has always been highly emotional. Think huge sobbing fests at the drop of a hat, world ending if she scrapes her knee etc. She's very disorganised and scatty, completely illegible handwriting, always on the periphery of friendship groups etc. She cannot take criticism. She made a tiny mistake on some homework yesterday and refused to do any more. Her teacher has also said that she has to be very careful about how she words criticism as DD has a meltdown.
DS(8) has ADHD. I'm a nursery SENco and was refreshing my training last night. Came across a checklist type thing for ADHD and it was as if it was written about DD.
I spoke to her teacher this morning to ask if there was a way of getting some self-esteem boosting interventions or similar because I was worried. I emailed the SENco stating my concerns as the school have been really lax before (took 3 years to get DS referred) and had a reply an hour later saying teacher went straight to see them and DD is starting a special group once s week for self esteem and so the SENco can informally assess her.
I was expecting to be told I was overreacting tbh. I'm a little thrown by how quickly they've sorted this out.
Not sure why I'm posting. It just feels a bit like oh fuck, I've spent so many years worrying about DS that I've overlooked what could be a thing with DD.