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My oldest two children are, on the surface, about as opposite as they come. My son Loren is 18 and a free spirited artist. His elementary and middle school years were spent at a Waldorf school where his talents were very much at home. In high school he eventually ended up at an alternative school [...]
My youngest son came home from the bus stop in tears on Friday. Little J has a high functioning form of autism and is mainstreamed into the seventh grade in middle school. I have been wondering when the other kids would clue into this and think it was fun to upset him, because middle school [...]
For the last seven years I have suffered from insomnia. Up to that point the only time I experienced an inability to sleep was at the end of my three pregnancies when then enormity of my belly inhibited any sort of comfortable position. Seven years ago Devon, my youngest and a newborn at the time, [...]
My kids…read here… ‘Eldest Child in General’ is so flipping sneaky… Well – her sneakiness gets her nowhere, because this morning? She was caught out a vrikkin treat. This is how the conversation went: Dave: “Put your sweets (candy) away, you have to have breakfast now.” Her (screaming in whiny pre-teen voice): ” I HHAAVVEENNTTT [...]
(Little J, my youngest son, just turned 13 last week and has high functioning autism. Which is what makes my conversations with him so amazingly charming.) As I sat in our hot tub last night with my son, the sky darkening around us and a million stars coming out over our heads, I pondered such [...]
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