Letters

Climbing Up the IEP Goals Ladder – “What a Great Quarter!” Edition

December 17, 2008

We had our end-of-quarter Parent/Teacher Conference yesterday, and we all celebrated how great the J-Man is doing in school. Since IEPs are all about annual, specific, measurable goals, these four-times-yearly conferences with the teacher are about seeing how he’s meeting the measurements established by those goals. This allows you to make mid-course corrections as needed, [...]

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Think All Flash Cards Are Alike? Think Again! – A Review of Goosie Cards

December 11, 2008

To preview what Goosie Cards are, visit their web site at GoosieCards.com. As we’ve chronicled in recent posts (see “My God, He IS Reading!”, “Roy G. Biv”), our son is all about his flash cards lately. They’re not going to displace the Sacred Wooden Letter Blocks of Steadfast Security and Comfort anytime soon, but flash [...]

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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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The $64,000 Question – Is He (Dare We Say It) Reading?

November 17, 2008

Now I’ll be the first to admit that something this significant requires equally significant evidence to convince me this is really happening, but there’s at least something interesting going on here. J-Man has a picture book – one of those baby-oriented ones with one picture per page. Over time, he’s enjoyed looking at these sorts [...]

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Achin’ 2 – Electric Croup-aloo

November 10, 2008

The Croup has landed on the Flashlight house. Man I was starting to feel bored, lazy, and complacent so it’s a good thing this happened! Feel the sarcasm oozing from every pore! And even better is that there really isn’t a dang thing you can do about croup except maybe crank up some humidifiers. And [...]

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Revisiting Milestones – Speech, Language, and Reading

July 23, 2008

I’m one of the first people to encourage other parents to chuck the milestones books out the window. The ones that tell you what your child should be doing at 75.34 weeks to me do little except make you increase your antacid budget every month. The obvious exception to this is that if you suspect [...]

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