Over the years, I have become quite disenchanted by typical parenting and child discipline books. A lot of this had to do with the process of learning where my son was developmentally and how to communicate clearly with him so that he would understand what was going on around him and his part in it….
Category Archives: Day In And Day Out
Autism Night Before Christmas (A Poem)
This poem was sent out earlier this week via AutismLink and was written by Cindy Waeltermann, who is the founder of that organization. I loved it so much that I asked her for permission to reprint it on my blog, which she granted. In rereading the poem, it touched me even more and I wanted…
What Do You Think?
I’m a recent convert to the world of Facebook. For years, I’ve avoided social networking sites, but when a friend introduced me to Facebook, I started to find real value in it. And, unlike MySpace, it doesn’t seem filled with hormone-ravaged teenagers, but rather, adults – families – professionals. I’m able to keep in touch…
Christmas Carols: Special Needs Style
Right off the bat I’ve got to make it known that I didn’t come up with these Christmas carols. Nope. The thanks goes to Terri Mauro. You can find more of her stuff over at About.com:Special Needs Children (Drat! I can’t get these to post up any bigger than thumbnails. So, under each thumbnail I’ve…
Try This Tuesday #23: Accepting Help
I don’t have any amazing new strategy or must-have item to make your life easier this week, just a story about what happened to me this weekend. I hadn’t been feeling too well since last Monday, but assumed it was just a really bad cold, so I said goodbye to my husband as he went…
Immy’s wish.
When my daughter, Imogen, was seven years old, she sat on Santa’s lap in the shopping centre, closest to our house and asked for one thing. She asked for new teeth. Grade two had been particularly hard for Immy as she had been the brunt of playground teasing by some horrid little girls who obviously thought…
A Matter of Etiquette
This is a topic I’ve written about on my own blog before now, but felt it was worth revisiting here – not least to get some other opinions about it. My wife and I were in the supermarket recently when we saw a mother with 2 kids – one was about 18 months old and…
We Got the Funk
I had a whole post ready to go about Peyton’s upcoming surgery later this week. She’s supposed to be getting her port removed and the post told of my anxiety, her excitement, and all the changes having that port out would mean….and NOT mean. But in the course of minutes, the surgery has been postponed…
Me Time — Christmas Edition
“It was the day before Christmas and it had been snowing hard all day. They began in the early morning, shortly after seven, large feathery flakes sliding down as if they were only playing. They soon grew larger, swirling fantastically, like children taking hold of hands, chasing one another through a fairy world, now this…
Close up and personal
When I first started blogging and went in search of sites written by other parents of children with Down Syndrome, one of the things I noticed was a distinct lack of photos. Maybe it was fear of strangers seeing their children, or maybe it was just a level of ignorance about how to upload pics,…