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Thanks to everyone who has replied. I agree that this time is the hardest as she can no longer go back to her Russian to think through concepts. My biggest struggle is her unwillingness to accept that she needs to ask for help or to have things explained when she does not immediately understand.

She has difficulties with friends and siblings at times because she will not understand what they are saying and her feelings get hurt when the conversation was not in any way intended as negative.

Just last night I questioned some chalk writing that looked like an "arguement" and she would not talk about it and said she "forgot" who it was written to. We have tons of problems with her lying so this became the issue instead of talking about what the arguement was about. It turns out that she was writing a note to the neighbour girl asking if she wanted to play but it was written backwards with a double negative and the girl got mad and left. She had stomped up to her room and told her Dad she was tired.