Dr. Melanie Hayes
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704 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2019
last heard Feb 2022
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because we only g made it through about halfway through kindergarten.
Um
And it it was actually at the time pretty devastating for me because
I
had this career as a teacher and um I thought my kids would do great.
We were in a really great school, one of the distinguished schools in the a very sought after community in California.
And um
My daughter was severely bullied, and my son just completely shut down.
Um, what happened with my son was he was doing fifth grade math and read at a twelfth grade level in kindergarten.
And they refused to do any kind of acceleration.
They said to me, Well, if he's doing fifth grade math in kindergarten, what are we gonna do next year? 'Cause we only go to sixth grade, so
I realized I was gonna have to do something drastic.
Um and so I pulled
them from school and quit my job and stayed home home schooling.
And that was kind of a shock because I I tried to do sort of school at home and that didn't work.
Um and then a as we went along we found out that um they were both uh considered to be twice exceptional children, um, both my kids and they I have their permission.
to talk about them, but um both of them have anxiety disorder.
Um uh my son also has something called prosopygnosia, which is face blindness.
Um
Uh my daughter is a stealth dyslexic, so she has dysgraphia, dyscalculia, dyslexia, which is a trifecta of of trouble for school.
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