November 2008

A Few Minutes Back on the Main Road – What is ‘Normal’ Exactly?

November 24, 2008

There is that in me – I do not know what it is – but I know it is in me. Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the [...]

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My God, He IS Reading! (Special 200th Post Edition)

November 23, 2008

[Another event so good it requires two posts!] We celebrate our 200th post with a monumental achievement by the J-Man. Even though we were quite skeptical before, he really IS reading words!! We pulled out these ‘sight words’ cards we have, which are basically just flash cards with one word per card and nothing else [...]

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Roy G. Biv

November 23, 2008

[Another event so good it requires two posts!] So this morning, the J-man and I are hanging out downstairs, when he goes into the other room, and brings me a set of flashcards, still in the box. Yes, we have many sets of flashcards! On the front of the box was a representation of one [...]

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Adventures in Not-Really Potty Training

November 22, 2008

For the record, we aren’t potty training and haven’t even begun to ponder that idea with any seriousness. We’re adherents to the rule of not working on more than a couple of major things at once, and frankly potty training just doesn’t rank compared to other stuff we’re working on right now. Anyway, so after [...]

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Hot Wheels That Heal

November 21, 2008

This story made my day. Now we all know that our kids’ tendency to accumulate, organize, hoard, and generally become very focused on one kind of thing (trains, rocks, blocks, etc.) can range from endearing to annoying to problematic to a source of creative insight into how their brains work. For them, however, these things [...]

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Decision Against Alex Barton’s Teacher – At Least For Now

November 20, 2008

I and half the autism blogosphere wrote a while back about Alex Barton’s horrible ordeal at school where he got voted out of his kindergarten classroom by his peers at the leading of his teacher. The idea – warped as it was beyond what the human brain should be capable of – apparently was to [...]

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If Parents Started Talking Like Skateboarders

November 19, 2008

I’m at the perfect age (35) where you’re neither old nor cool. In fact, 35 is probably the utter nadir of coolness. Plus I’m tired, punchy, and in need of a laugh, even if I end up being the only one laughing. In a sorry attempt to make parenting sound cool – or to, more [...]

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Shoebox and Folder Games

November 18, 2008

Friday has turned into Make It/Take It day at preschool, which I was instantly excited about. That morning, parents can come in and take advantage of the class’s vast stores of creative goodness to make activities, picture schedules, and whatever else under the direction of our resident experts – our really cool teachers. We make [...]

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