Life After OT

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“When was the last time you guys took a break from therapies?” His OT asked me this question, and I hadn’t really thought about it before. 

“Never,” I replied, “we’ve been at this 2-3 times a week for 10 years.”

Wow.  The realization hit me pretty hard after I said

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More Discipline, or Just a New Normal

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I noticed her, as she sat there reading The Sensory-Sensitive Child.  Titles like that always jump out at me because I’ve read a lot of those books, and of course I have my favorites too.  I asked her if she had read The Out of Sync

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Farts in a Frying Pan, or How to Make Him Sit Down

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The boy. cannot. sit. down.

He attended a special K-I program when he was in kindergarten, and his teacher said he was like a fart in a frying pan. I knew what she meant, and I wasn’t offended. He gets an idea and *POOF* he’s gone to go do what ever it is

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VBS and Special Needs

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This week is VBS, which is of course a wonderful time of year for moms all over the country.   We get five wonderful mornings to ourselves, to think and pray, clean and organize, or run errands without carting the younger set of kids around with us.  At least, some moms find freedom

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Update: Dyspraxia at 9

D1 is 9 now. “Nine and a HALF”, as he would correct me. He had his annual OT Evaluation last Monday, and we got good news! His OT has discharged him from individual OT again, for a while.

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