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There is so much to organize, strategize and accomplish on any given day, especially in a world where I deal with family, business and nonprofit outreach. Add in a son with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), another son with Auditory Processing, a daughter who is trying to find her way as a typical preteen, and [...]
My kids have been in the principal’s office so much this week, I think I might have to add the man to our Christmas Card Photo!~ My Mama’s Turn Now Blog Facebook status on 3-21-12 No matter how many strands of my hair I pick up off the floor, the amount of coffee I drink [...]
These are the words that actually came out of my son’s mouth: “Well, I’m just saying that to me it doesn’t seem like everything you do is that hard. I’m the one that’s stuck in school for 6 hours and you just take care of two autistic kids in the morning and then 22 kindies [...]
If you’re much younger than me (no don’t even ask), you may not remember the Calgon bubble bath commercial showing a woman sinking into a bathtub overflowing with luxurious bubbles and saying almost breathlessly, “Calgon, take me away.” As if by sinking into a Calgon bath, all her troubles were gone. Well, in some ways [...]
We often work with families where there is a significant mismatch between one or both parents and their child. Understanding not only how their child experiences the world, but also how they do is the first step towards creating a more harmonious home life for everyone. Are You Sensitive and/or a Significant Introvert? Do loud [...]
This is a very difficult message to write, but it should have been written many, many weeks ago. As Tiffani Lawton informed all of you right after Thanksgiving, my family was thrown into complete chaos and I was met with an emotional journey that I had never envisioned in my life. It made planning for [...]
Two years ago I was in bad shape. My then 7-year-old son, who has FASD (fetal alcohol spectrum disorder), and whose related alphabet-soup of diagnoses include ADHD, SPD, ODD, learning disabilities, developmental delays, and PBD, was struggling in school: notes were sent home every day about his behavior, he was behind in all his benchmarks, [...]
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” – Brian Littrell. With the ringing in of each New Year, we tend to make promises to accomplish goals turning over a new leaf. According to Gretchen Rubin author of best-seller The Happiness Project, “You hit a goal, you achieve a goal. [...]
Along come the holidays and often a host of different illnesses along with them. When my children were young it seemed someone was always ill over Christmas or New Years or both. I used to blame it on being indoors in close quarters with exposure to many people and figure it was inevitable. I wish [...]
It is the time of year that we analyze what we have done in the past year, and while most of us tend to think about what we haven’t done, I know that you dear reader are thinking about what you HAVE done, right? You’re considering what you’re grateful for, what you’ve accomplished that you [...]
