Category:Parenting
It’s Dangerous to Compare
We’re all guilty of it. We compare ourselves to everyone, our children to their peers, our spouses to our friends’ spouses. We measure our houses, our cars, our jobs against others’. Everyone gets sucked into “Keeping Up with the Joneses” sometimes. It’s an especially dangerous game to play when you have a high functioning autistic …
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Back to School: Scrimmages
I didn’t post last week because we were on vacation—Sorry, not sorry! I have decided to turn my back to school posts into a little bit of a series though, so I am hoping to post twice this week. My last post was about easing out of summer and into a routine. Going on vacation …
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Back to School: The Warm-Up
Summer is never quite what I expect. It used to be relaxed and breezy—a chance to go to the pool everyday and do strange science experiments with the boys. They’ve outgrown the science experiments and our lives have gotten too hectic. When the boys were younger, not much changed from season to season (including the …
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Always Listening
The thing with Yoshi is that he hears everything, even when you think that he is not listening. It gets more interesting because he doesn’t forget anything. You would think that after ten years I would be more aware of these things. By now I should have learned to watch what I say, even if …
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Stretched Too Thin
We have all been there. Over committed. It could be self-imposed—we said yes too many times, or it could be circumstances out of our control—when it rains, it pours, after all. Or, worst case scenario, it could be a terrible combination of both. That’s where I found myself last week. It’s where I’ve been living …
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