Posts Tagged ‘Aspergers Syndrome’
What’s Your Parenting Purpose?
Your parenting purpose helps guide your actions with your children. Do you know yours? My parenting purpose and focus has shifted and changed daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and by the decade. I imagine all of us have shifting purposes that weave in and out of all aspects of our lives, but I have found that…
Read MoreFavorite Parenting Memories
If you’ve been here awhile, you’ve seen our ups and our downs: our diagnosis, our medications struggle, our labels. My son’s been called every different name in labeling history (started out Asperger’s Syndrome, then dropped the “Syndrome” part, moved onto high-functioning autism, and now I think we’re currently labeled “Autism Spectrum Disorder”). Whatever the case may…
Read MoreBreathe Deeply. You Are Invited . . .
. . . to take a slow. long. and deep breath. Seriously, right now in this moment, you can do that! This life we lead, the world that surrounds us, the sites and sounds we wish weren’t there but probably don’t even notice–all of these things get to us and they…
Read MoreWhat Honey Badger Mamas Teach Us about Parenting
OK, OK, honey badger mamas probably won’t actually teach us much about parenting our human autistic children, but there are some things we need to pay attention to that the honey badger mama is doing right. But first, here’s the inspiration for understanding how the honey badger can help us parent better: Honey Badger Narrates: The Precious…
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