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Please help me to help my 13 year old daughter

Author:
nishrin

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Date Posted: 01:11:06 11/12/11 Sat

Dear All,
I am a mother of a 13 year old girl, initially when she started school she never used to do her class work and return from school, I use to scream at her for not doing it and used to get the notes from her friends. As a new mother I wasnt even aware of the term Dyslexia so thought that my deaughter was just lazy and not trying hard. She grew up all these years doing very hard work and just about making it in all the subjects. This year she is in grade 9 but even after working so hard she failed in all the subjects but as she was not comfortable to tell me she lied to me about her marks. The day i went to get her results was when i came to know of what she had done. I was s o shocked i didnt know what to tell her, I cried a lot and she too cried a lot telling me " mummy y do i always get less marks when i study so hard while other friends of mine rarely study and then too they pass" My heart felt very very bad for her, She is a very loving caring, honest child. I dont know how i can help her but please if anyone out there can help me I will be very thankful.
My daughter says that when she sees her exam papers she forgets everything why is this happening.
What should i do in situation where she has lied to me, should i punish her or should i just let her go after explaning.
Should I go to her school and explain her Principle to give her more time for her exam papers but in doing so wont her friends know of her problem and start to tease her.
My daughter has got a heart of gold and anybody who gets to know her falls in love with her, but because she is slow in everything her confidence level is falling rapidly.
PLEASE HELP ME TO DO SOMETHING WHICH WILL HELP HER GET HER CONFIDENCE BACK.

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Replies:

Subject	Author	Date
Re: Please help me to help my 13 year old daughter	Darwin Jensen	11:41:15 11/12/11 Sat
Re: Please help me to help my 13 year old daughter -- Susan Fowden (informative....), 14:22:59 11/14/11 Mon
Re: Please help me to help my 13 year old daughter	alson	23:00:05 11/13/11 Sun