I had the wonderful privelege of attending the Athletic Awards Banquet at Mr 14’s private school. This banquet honors all the student athletes and their coaches. Mr 14 received the 2009 Coaches Award for the Cross Country/Track team! We are so proud of him!!
Way to Go, Mr 14!!!
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Coaches Award
Posted in life with my children, special needs on May 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Parenting with Intention: Tone of Voice
Posted in Parenting, Parenting with Intention, Works for Me!, autism, special needs on December 9, 2008 | 4 Comments »
*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. [...]
Parenting with Intention: Table Manners
Posted in Parenting, Parenting with Intention, Works for Me!, special needs on December 6, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I’ve been thinking about doing a Parenting with Intention series for a while now. I decided to post some drafts I’ve had typed up for a bit. I’ve wanted to talk about parenting special needs and typical children for awhile. I don’t have it all together by any means. But by typing, I think things [...]
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 [...]
Arise and cry out
Posted in Prayers please, We're all connected, general musings/writings, special needs on November 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Lamentations 2:19
Arise, cry out in the night,
as the watches of the night begin;
pour out your heart like water
in the presence of the Lord.
Lift up your hands to him
for the lives of your children,
who faint from hunger
at the head of every street.
I have decided to pray according to the above [...]
Reece’s Rainbow
Posted in Prayers please, We're all connected, adoption, christmas, general musings/writings, special needs on November 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve got a new link in my sidebar. Actually, it’s a “button” I’m told, by my more computer-saavy children! Please go and check it out. Reece’s Rainbow is a wonderful nonprofit organization whose mission is to help find children with Down’s Syndrome and other medical needs homes. These children face a bleak future in the [...]
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 [...]
Computer TV restriction
Posted in Parenting, Works for Me!, special needs on October 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In our home, computer and TV use is a privelege not a right. It is an effective consequence for bad attitdue around here to lose your TV/computer priveleges. This morning was one of those attitude examples. Usually, our consequences around here are logical and/or natural. Attitude is one that’s a bit hard though to come [...]
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 [...]
