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There’s Always Room for One More
When I was a little girl, I remember laying on the bottom bunk in my bedroom and pushing my legs up against the top bunk as hard as I could to raise it up. While I strained my skinny little legs, I stared at a poster on my wall. It was one that had always been there for as long as I could remember. The poster was a picture of stuffed animals of various sorts sitting in a carboard box. The caption at the bottom read, “There’s Always Room For One More.” I thought about that saying a lot, lying on the bottom bunk, when I was young. I thought…
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5 Steps to Surviving Distance Learning
Surviving Distance Learning! Many children who do well naturally in school do NOT thrive under the current Distance Learning conditions! Moreover, not only are they isolated from their friends, but they are expected to pay attention for hours via internet. Add to this a child with learning disabilities, or who struggles with academics, and it can be a perfect storm for disaster! There is not a lot of stimulation from a flat screen concerning school work! How can you help keep them engaged, and save your sanity? Basically, if what you are currently doing isn’t working, or is not working well, consider changing tactics. In other words, a new approach…
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My Covid-19 Class of 2020 Kid
What’s Covid-19 Distance Learning?!? This Whole World Wide Covid-19 Virus Pandemic has been difficult for all of us. To say that life has been very strange, would an understatement. Did I think that it would still be going on? No, not at all. I assumed we would be back to normal before the end of June. Now we are well into July and life is still strange. What has been the most difficult for me? Getting my son Lane through the end of his Senior year of High School. He is my youngest child of 5, and I joke that this was my last time to complete high school, so…
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Journal-About Easter
Belated Easter Greetings, World! I Love Easter! April 12, 1980 Dear Journal, I have been very, very busy, and I guess writing in you has become less important lately. Hopefully that doesn’t make me a selfish person. I have just been busy! However, I am still 12 and on August 3rd, I will be 12 and a half! Today is my daddy’s birthday. He is so handsome. I love his black hair and blue eyes. He also has tan skin from always being outside. I love that he is a fast runner and that he wants me to keep running in track. My mom made him a carrot cake. Yuck!…
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Journal- February 16, 1980
February 16, 1980 Dear Journal, I have been super busy so I did not write every day last week. My days can be very busy. Monday through Friday I go to school all day. I have a very long bus ride. I catch the bus around 6:30 am, and school starts around 8 something. Even though I do not like to ride the bus so long, I do like to talk with my friends and read books on the bus on the way to school. Mostly I talk with Tina K., Julie B., Carmen and Elena. Sometimes I talk to Reuben or the Davids, but they are tired when they…
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Parenting a Child from Planet Asperger’s
Once Upon a Time, there was a King and Queen who had a beautiful baby daughter. They threw a grand celebration and invited all of the magical fairies in the realm to bestow upon the child a gift. The fairies gave her gifts such as the gift of kindness, grace and beauty. Oh wouldn’t it be magical if we could really do this? If we could bestow our children with gifts of the spirit, talents, abilities and other positive genetic features and traits? We cannot choose our genetics, at least not yet. So what do we do when we have this beautiful baby Prince or Princess who ends up being…
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A Romantic Blessed Mom of 5; Mental Health Advocate, with a Creative, Victorian Soul.
