It's never easy
Emmeline has been going to camp for the last few weeks, and she'll continue to go through August. It's a benefit of her enrollment at an after school program for behaviorally challenged children; the summer program, essentially. It's fantastic for her -- gets her outdoors in a beautiful setting, trying new things, It also presents some challenges. One of those challenges presented itself last Thursday.
On Thursday afternoon Bonnie was running late from an occupational therapy appointment with Robert and missed Emmeline at her bus stop, which is a couple of miles away from us. Obviously they didn't let her off, but when the routine was broken Emme proceeded to have a major episode. She started screaming and crying, banging her fists, kicking and shouting until the bus driver gave up, turned around and went back to camp to have her escorted off the bus by camp counselors until Bonnie could get there.
As a result, the other children on that bus (Emmeline was one of the first stops) were up to an hour late being dropped off to their parents, and her bus-riding privileges have been revoked for a week.
I suppose a week isn't that bad, in the scheme of things, but it's an additional thing for us to do. And Bonnie had to spend an hour talking with the counselors at camp this morning about what to do in the event this should ever happen again.
It's just one of the many things that, for better or worse, we have to handle differently because our kids are different.