What a roller coaster!

This week has been up and down and up and down and now....looking back up again though there are some decisions to be made.

On Monday, as I described painfully in my last post, it seemed as if we were SOL for any type of social skills group for CW which he is so desperate for. Fast forward to yesterday, we are now eligible again for the group that was supposed to start this past Monday but is now starting Oct 3, and there is ANOTHER group that he may also be good for that will start later in October!

Here's the thing, I don't know what to do. The group that was supposed to start this past Monday is private - ie: we pay out of our pocket. It is 8 weeks long and run by social workers/psychologists. They seemed ok, though DH and I never really got a great feeling from them, and feel even less confident after Monday's incident (when the group was supposed to start but didn't and no one bothered to call us)

The other group is publicly funded - ie: we pay nothing. It is not 100% that we are in because we still need to be interviewed, but the psychiatrist running it said it looks good. It is longer than 8 weeks - probably almost the whole school year. There is also a parent component to this group, which will keep me really busy since I'm also attending a weekly parenting workshop until January.

So the decision is, do we do one or the other...or even both? Both my DH and mom think we should do both. I just wonder if twice weekly behaviour work is going to be too tiring and stressful on CW, and nevermind me having to schlep him to both activities. But then, I suppose we should take all the help we can get right? Or just try them both for a while and hope there aren't that many weeks that overlap? There is also the question of Halloween and Thanksgiving, both of which fall on Mondays when privategroup takes place. I emailed the leaders of the group to ask about that. Because there is no way my son is going to work on behaviour when he could be trick or treating. And I don't think it is fair to expect him to. So I hope to get some answers to that today to be able to make a decision. But at least, now we have options. It is certainly going to be a busy fall season!