Getting to School: Luv

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Special Needs Son Too Shy to Make Friends at School

My son is a special needs first grader. He was born with five birth defects all affecting his major organs, and requires a lot of medical attention. He is pulled out of class for several therapies, and misses a lot of school for illness. He is neurologically fine, just delayed a little still. At recess he just sits by the classroom door all by himself. It breaks my heart that he doesn't have friends. I've tried telling him to just go up to kids and ask to play, but he says they do stuff that he can't. He has limited lung capacity, so...

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Problem with a Neighbor

OK, here is what happened this morning. We were waiting for the school bus this morning and my oldest son was playing with a neighbor kid in his yard (It also happens to be where the bus stop is) when another neighbor yelled at them to get out of the "garden"(it is an area with dirt and rocks. No plants were getting trampled). Both boys were getting out and my son said, "I'm not in her garden". This neighbor, not the one who lives there, starts yelling at my child. I politely asked her not to yell at my son, that I would handle it, and so...