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Category Archives: Sharing
Winning isn’t Everything…
It is now obvious that we have upset the powers that be. Another winter storm and another snow day for Jeffery. The sad part was just the day before it was 74 degrees. Today? Temperatures in the lower 30’s falling … Continue reading
Thank you, Daddy…
Patience finally has it’s rewards. Despite my timing faux pas with the delivery of the long awaited “Furry Tales,” our friends at the post office finally took pity on us and made good on the promise I made to my … Continue reading
Posted in Autistic Child with Family, Children's Hospital, communication with children, Eating Disorder, education, family time, Family with Autistic Child, patience, Sharing
Tagged Autism, Cake, Children's Hospital, DVD, feeding clinic, Furry Tales, Icing, Incentives, Sugar Rush, Wiggles
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Virtue Building…
They say patience is a virtue. Sometimes raising an autistic child can be a virtue building machine…for both the child and the parents. In our case we have been building our virtue for the past month waiting for Mr. Man’s … Continue reading
Communication, Safety, and Unity…
We recently had Jeffery’s IEP to discuss the goals we have for the upcoming months and to discuss their plans in regards to Jeffery’s elopement issues. As it is our usual, we took the time to make sure our voice … Continue reading
“Give or take a Cheek!”
If you listen closely, you can hear the disappointed groans of a Mom who had finally gotten to send her son back to school for one day before the next snow closed it down again. The previous snow had just … Continue reading
Posted in Autistic Child with Family, communication with children, education, family time, Family with Autistic Child, patience, Sharing, snow days
Tagged Autism, cheeks, goldfish, kisses, koi, laziness, love, Mother, school, snowdays, Son, water
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On to the Next….
As mentioned in a previous post, there are certain games Jeffery plays that eventually requires some assistance. He will play these games until he reaches a point that he is having trouble getting past and then it becomes: “Help with … Continue reading
Focus on homework…
Almost everyday our son comes home with a few pages of homework. Usually it is intertwined with the lessons they will be doing all week and involves some vocabulary words or a certain topic. I tend to wait to give … Continue reading
Revisionist History…
Children’s perceptions of how events transpired are a funny thing. As mentioned previously, we gave our grandson Georgie my old IPad. To make it different from Jeffery’s, we put a black rubber casing around it, thinking this would reduce the … Continue reading
Working without a Net: Life with an Autistic Child 