*Update: I’m using this for Works for Me Wednesday. The entire series can be found by selecting the Parenting with Intention category. I plan to write on this topic through at least January)
My children (all boys ages 4-13) are generally respectful and speak kindly to one another and to us as parents. [...]
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Parenting with Intention: Tone of Voice
Posted in Parenting, Parenting with Intention, Works for Me!, autism, special needs on December 9, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Proud mama
Posted in Parenting, autism, life with my children, special needs on November 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I meant to write this up last week when it occured and then got busy and didn’t get it done.
My three older boys have a “friend” who lives in the house behind us. This boy just started middle school this year and it’s been an interesting transition. Instead of playing first with my children (particulary [...]
Expectations and special needs parenting
Posted in Parenting, autism, general musings/writings, special needs on October 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was reading over at Springs about parenting and special needs children. I love her blog and it’s worth a trip over there if you want to read some real, honest, mom perspective. Her husband posts sometimes as well and he has great insights also.
Anyway, she’s been blogging about an incident recently with her newest child. [...]
Another difficult morning
Posted in Parenting, autism, special needs, tagged autism, special needs parenting on October 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
My eldest attends a private school for children with learning disabilities and/or autism spectrum. It’s been a perfect fit for him. Small class size (teacher/student ratio is 1/4 is math and reading/writing with a ratio of 1/8 in the other content classes), friends similar to him in interests and ability, a great cross country team [...]
Tough morning
Posted in autism, life with my children, special needs, tagged autism, special needs on October 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This morning was one of those mornings with one of my children. He woke up on the wrong side of the bed apparently. As in on another continent almost. It was tough. He woke up grumpy, ate grumpy, dressed grumpy, and washed his face grumpy. He then left for school…you guessed it….grumpy.
He made some choices [...]
