As I pulled up to Rachel’s school this morning, I mulled over how much she’s changed. She first started full-time school two-and-a-half years ago. Each day included a terrible fight,…
Children
Adversity Brings Blessings
The other day I thought about what to write and came up with nothing. Nothing exciting had occurred, nothing terrible, either. Life had just been going along. With a rush…
Fun Family Activity: Listening to Audio Books
I spend almost three hours a day in the car. Aside from needing to exercise more, I get bored. One of the ways we deal with the tedium is to…
Parenting Strengths and Weaknesses
Our most recent homework assignment from our Relationship Development Intervention (RDI) coordinator is to journal our strengths and weaknesses as guides to our autistic daughter. (The term “guide” is most easily…
Bullying and “Blubber”
At the age of four, my favorite pastime became reading. My mom said I went straight from the Berenstain Bears to Sherlock Holmes with few stops in between. Now that…
Disciplining Boys: An “Aha!” Moment
I can tell when it’s happening. My son wants to hit everything (or everyone) in sight with something: his foam sword, his body, a pillow, a blanket, a piece of cardboard. He…
Adding a Kinkajou to the Game
My front yard had transformed into a medieval kingdom for my princess and the two damsels from the kingdom next door. My son finally finished his homework and went bounding…
Beginning of School Boo-Hoos
Well, I survived it again … The first day of school, but it was so hard walking into the quiet house after I got home. The day before school started I…
Summer in Review
I had big plans for this summer. I was going to buff up, clean up, get up, pick up, and finish up the scrapbooking. How did I do? Well ……
First Day of Kindergarten
My friend Jaqueline survived her daughter’s first day of kindergarten … barely. She’d lived through several crying spells over the last few days and major tears the night before the first day…