What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
James 4:1-3 NIV
IEP meetings are part of life when you have a child with delays or disabilities. These meetings are often dreaded by parents and can be seen as a source of stress or anger.
There’s one good reason for that; the meeting is about their child.
These meetings make us parents confront our child’s diffic–>ulties and challenges. We must look at where our children are academically, socially, and functionally. We are sometimes given numbers and scores that try to explain to us how our child is performing and how this may impact their future. We may discuss problems in school or home and try to come up with possible solutions. Every once in a while, important decisions must be made about placement changes, minutes needed in therapy, or a need for an individual aide.
