HOW'S IT FEEL LIKE TO HAVE LD? part 5

If you are children with Learning Difficulties, I am sure you know how it is feel like, but if you are a friend of a children with Learning Difficulties, you would rather read this carefully and help them to over come their problems.

Everybody can feel sad, hurt and angry, but children with LD usually most unhappy children. It is because they do not think that they learning fast enough, have trouble getting along at school, or sitting still, meanwhile other children will laugh at all the things they say or do.

Based on Gary Fisher, Ph.D and Rhoda Cummings, Ed.D, below are six ways to help children with LD to over come their depressed feeling;

1. Motivate yourself; if you are a child with LD, you need to motivate yourself by doing this "little exercise" in the morning and night before you sleep. Here, you need to say over and over again that you like yourself. You would rather doing it in front of the mirror, example: "I like my capability in linguistic, I know I am best on that". Then choose find five things that you are going to do in a day. Then, in a night, say the good things that you did in the day. Example; Today, I did better on sitting still.
2. Draw your feelings; if you have trouble in talking about your feeling, you would rather use drawing to express them. Then you can show the pictures to a parent or another adult you trust. 
3. Talking to counselor; many schools have counselors, then why don't you meet them and talk to them. They are trained to handle children with depressed. And the good things that you should know is, that they don't share it to anyone. So, your secret will be safe. So, don't worry about that.
4. Make a book about yourself; in this case you can write or draw books about yourself. You can write it as you write your on biography, maybe you can start your first chapter with; Things I like best about myself. Then your second chapter would be "Things I would like to change about myself". After that your third chapter would be "Things that make me feel happy", and then your fourth chapter will be "Things that make me feel sad, hurt and angry" and for closing you can write "How I want to be in 10 years"
5. Take a life one day at a time; worrying about future will not help you to over come your problem, you would rather enjoy and live in TODAY. It means you can motivate yourself with "I promise myself that I will do my best TODAY. Remember, past is just memory which might forgotten, and future is still a dream. Life is TODAY.
6. Be Patient; many people with LD who are succeed in their life is never give up. They remember that they will not in school forever. And they know that most of teachers care about you and want you to learn. Also, most parents love their children no matter what they are. Shortly, you need to laugh at yourself sometimes, be patient, things will be over soon. So, take a chill pill. 

References:

Garry Fisher, Ph.D and Rhoda Cummings, Ed.D, 2002 The Survival Guide for kids with LD, Minneapolis.