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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A Change of Routine

Tonight’s dinner was an exercise is coping skills for D1. My dad came into town for Christmas, arriving just before dinner tonight. As we all sat down for dinner, D1 was shocked to find someone sitting in his chair, which is next to me. We had set his place on the other side

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Let's Talk Accommodations

School and classroom accommodations, that is. Considering that this is the beginning of the school year, many parents are still in IEP mode… attempting to get their child’s IEP’s set up for the year, and figuring out how the teacher and support staff will implement that IEP. From a homeschooling standpoint, parents just

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Seeing God’s hand

My 8 year old son is developmentally delayed. That’s the “official diagnosis”. The underlying cause is fetal valproate exposure. He doesn’t have all the physical signs to qualify for the “syndrome” diagnosis, but the valproate exposure is thoroughly documented. The outward manifestations of this are very similar to fetal alcohol syndrome.

Seeing God’s hand