The forms assume one or two parents. Your child was never raised by one or two people. The companion is a tradition, not an accommodation: when you bring your mother, your pastor, or another parent to a school meeting, you are practicing something older than the system. Say it plainly at the door: "This is my child's grandmother. She is part of how we raise him." No apology, no request; two chairs is a fact, not a negotiation. Write the one-pager as a circle, with everyone who loves this child adding a line in whatever language it comes in. Offers can be collective: the grandmother who tells stories in the home language, the parent group that turns out ten families for clean-up day. And let the village hold you too: the parent who has already sat at the IEP table can sit beside you at your first one.