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mr. snake is my friend
Allow your child’s creative mind and aptitude to create and explore and discover. This blog shares the moment my son on the autism spectrum makes friends with a long, lonely metal cable cord.
running away
To write about how my life is a thread of calm and serenity would be a lie right now. Even though I continue to practice meditation, deep breathing, healthy eating, good sleep habits, and the like - I am still flooded by instability that currently surrounds life as I...
autism & choosing love over the things
Our neurotypical children stand tall and strong without us recognizing it. Here I share a moment when my daughter showed true love and grace for her brother on the autism spectrum.
our kids need to know
I truly believe it would an injustice to my kids, at the young ages of 6 and 9, to avoid talking about the deep pain points in our country. My kids, autism or not, deserve to know the truth about racism.
don’t fix me
Hans Asperger once said, The good and bad in a person, their potential for success or failure, their aptitudes and deficits – they are mutually conditional, arising from the same source. Our therapeutic goal must be to teach the person how to bear their difficulties....
i choose grace for myself
It's been 35 days. I'm officially a master at Zoom meetings and Google Hangouts. No longer do I reserve carry-out for special nights. Movie night, a once sacred family occasion, is now commonplace after dinner each night. Strange, yet,...
pink lipstick is our new normal
We welcome our first day of social distancing and online learning with warm pajamas, mugs of vanilla steamers, and a sparkler-like excitement about all the newness that surrounded us. Chromebooks position themselves in a row at our long, wood kitchen...
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