Everyday Lessons: Helping hands
As special needs parents we need to take everyday opportunities and use them as a means with which to teach our Autistic kids. Everyday lessons can help our kids to be better prepared for life’s...
View ArticleEveryday Lessons: Money Management
I have been saying for a while now that we have to seize every opportunity to teach our kids the lessons that will help them to not only survive life but succeed in life. I refer to them as “Everyday...
View ArticleEveryday Lessons: Food Choices
So this is another edition of Everyday Lessons. In posts under this title I show specific examples of how I use everyday things to teach important lessons. One of the things that my wife and I have...
View ArticleEveryday lessons: Shopping for Crickets
Most of you have met Toothless, Elliott’s bearded dragon. Elliott lost interest a long time ago but Emmett has stepped into fill the vacancy. One of Emmett most favorite things in the world to do is...
View Article#Autism: Everyday Lessons (05/10/2012)
I wanted to share another great example of using an everyday activity as a means of teaching a life lesson. I took Elliott to the grocery store with me and let him help me with every aspect of the...
View Article#Autism: Hammers and Nails
As a rule , I always try to include my kids in activities around the house. I think that by doing so, not only to I get to spend quality time, but also help to teach them valuable skills that they can...
View ArticleOur little emergency
This morning, while getting the boys ready for nap, I looked out the window and saw one of the neighbors cats torturing a baby squirrel. I went outside to chase the cat away and rescue the baby...
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Spiderman at the grocery store
Mr. Emmett John, aka Spiderman, aka Captain Independent was a really big help at the grocery store yesterday. Emmett is by far the most profoundly affected by #Autism, so I try to spend some extra...
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Fostering
Yesterday while I was mulching the leaves, there was an accident. This little baby snake got caught up in the process. I thought it was actually dead but it wasn’t. It was however, injured. The...
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He who has yet to be named
I finished setting up the snakes new winter home. We already had everything we needed down in the basement, including the heat lamp. The boys are busy thinking about a name. To be honest, I don’t...
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Father and son project: The Turtle Table
The things we do for our kids. Have you ever noticed how we do things for our kids because it makes them happy, even if it doesn’t make sense. The boys have been wanting a turtle for the longest time....
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An important lesson
Gavin came home today and we had a really rough time. We learned that Gavin spent the money he earned at his grandparents house on some toys at the store. You may recall that Gavin owes us for...
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#Autism’s Everyday Lessons: Perry’s redesigned home
Elliott, Emmett and I cleaned out and redesigned Perry the Tortoise’s habit this afternoon. It was pretty successful and they each helped out in their own way. The boys are absolutely captivated by...
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How to foster independence
I wanted to share something with you that I found to be really beneficial to my kids. I do my best to allow my kids to get as much hands on experience with life as possible. Take a look at the pictures...
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Learning life skills at @GiantEagle
I’ve written about this before but I’m going to write about it again. I really feel strongly about trying to use everyday activities as a chance to teach my 3 boys with #autism important life skills....
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