I am sitting enjoying the peace and quiet of my home. Not because my kids are gone, but because peace
exists in our home. I have struggled for
years and shied away from talking to people about the struggles that we’ve had experienced
with Jadelyn. Most people do not understand
the struggles and give well intended advice. Out of which we have gained the
knowledge that something was very different with our situation and that we were
lost and t needed serious help.
A lot has changed in the last eight weeks, we have found
help and have had our prayers answered. We have been attending Brain Highway and have been working on
changing the brain. It is the first time
in years that there has been peace and harmony in our home. We are only half way through the program and
we have seen so many wonderful and positive changes. We have gone from screaming and yelling for
hours from the smallest changes and challenges in life to being able to handle
huge changes with little or no fear. Jadelyn
used to sleep in our bed every night and this was a habit we didn’t have the
strength to correct. But after a little time in the brain highway program we
were able to get her in her own bed with very little effort. From school being a challenge and Jadelyn
being unengaged to school being fun and creative. Jadelyn used to cling to our side everywhere
we went and tended not to talk much outside our home. This gave the appearance
that we had a well behaved child; however at home we had a little monster. Now we are actually having a harder time with
her behavior outside the home rather than at home. But, we are actually seeing
the blessing in this. Jadelyn was once shy in public, but now she is talking
more and we are even hearing from many people that they are noticing huge
changes in her behavior.
Jadelyn’s academics have also improved. She used to have the
hardest time doing the simplest coloring pages to coming home with amazing art
work. She has always struggled in writing and the best she could do was write
her name in huge capital letters, a few days ago, she, for the first time wrote
her name in lower case letters without any help. She is now engaged with her
classmates and her teachers.
It is a blessing to
see her acting like a kid and being creative and having fun in life. Jadelyn
recently came out of a one on one appointment for speech and her teacher said
we had an evangelist on our hands. Apparently Jadelyn wanted to know what God
her teacher served and if she knew of Jesus. Talk about a huge life change and
being brave. She might have lead the
teacher to a relationship with Christ if she wasn’t already a Christian.
In the last eight weeks I have seen the kid that God
intended Jadelyn to be. I am blessed
beyond measures to have two kids in the house.
