I read an article in the New York Times about the difficulty in providing education for autistic children. Fundamentally, the argument goes like this: Autistic children need intensive and expensive education and therapy early on if we hope to have them function independently later in life. Without this education, they will likely be [...]
Entries from April 2009
Short term versus Long Term
April 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Tags: Education
Planting Hope
April 30th, 2009 · 6 Comments
It’s finally over. Winter. It was, as it always is, so very long and so very dark. February rolled in and then stayed for months and months and then slowly March passed and April began and there we were- finally outside. Outside, desperately searching for the season’s very first sprout. [...]
Tags: A Little Greener · Beauty, Health & Fitness
Promoting Healthy Self-Esteem
April 29th, 2009 · 5 Comments
The following is not a new video, but it is valuable. Even if you’ve seen it before, today might be the right day to share it with your daughter/sister/cousin/mother/niece/friend. And their brothers, fathers and friends, too.
And if you’d like to hear more about developing healthy self-esteem, try this article from NYU’s Child Study Center.
And [...]
Tags: Beauty, Health & Fitness · Media
The Importance Of A Routine
April 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment
My husband travels quite a bit for his job. The travel is never on a consistent schedule, but it’s fair to say that he’s been gone almost half the year so far. In fact, he’s out of town this week. My mother often jokingly calls me a “single mother” since I am often on my [...]
Tags: Parenting
With A Bang And A Whimper…
April 28th, 2009 · 3 Comments
My laptop died this past weekend.
Luckily, we have an identical laptop, so I was able to move my drives over, copy all of my personal data onto an external USB drive, and now I can work on almost any computer that I can get time on.
The problem is that I used my computer to handle [...]
Tags: Home
Rhyme Time
April 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment
I don’t know when it started, but somewhere in this whole parenting journey I started using short rhyming phrases with the boys. Things like “What’s the story, Glory?” and “What’s the deal, Neil?” or “Buckle up, Buttercup”.
I got to wondering if anyone else does that or am I just crazy? Wait, [...]
Tags: Parenting
Swine Flu – Calm, Clear Concern
April 27th, 2009 · 3 Comments
We live in Los Angeles, California. Normally, this is a good thing. Warm weather, great foliage, excellent seafood. On the other hand, we’re a big tourist destination, so weird things are not unexpected. And when I heard that the swine flu that was flaring up in Mexico City had come to San Diego, I started [...]
Play Date Etiquette Advice for Older Kids
April 25th, 2009 · 2 Comments
I should have entitled this post Play Date Etiquette Advice for Parents of Older kids. My kids are almost 3 and 5.5. Next year my older son (OS) will be in kindergarten. Since he just missed the cutoff (Sept.2 and the cutoff is August 31) for this year, many of his friends [...]
Tags: Parenting · friendship · play
Discipline
April 24th, 2009 · 3 Comments
On Sunday Copy Cat bit Pack Rat really, really hard on the hand. Pack Rat was screaming and crying out in pain. Immediately, Copy Cat crawled behind the rocking chair in their playroom because she knew she was in trouble. Dad when in to discipline her, but she cowered even farther behind the chair where [...]
Tags: Behavior
Project Management
April 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
It seemed like a good idea at the time.
It still is, actually. It’s just driving me crazy at this particular moment.
We decided to go ahead and put an addition on our house. The plans are identical to something our neighbors did with a few tweaks. We’re creating a mud room, turning the [...]
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