Tag: parenting
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Grab a Diet Coke: No school days are our problem solving days.
We get the coffee, donuts, diet coke, happy meal, special toy, and we keep trying to solve problems bite by bite. Cold calling and asking for help (aka advocating) and problem solving on no school days has been our routine since our children’s infancy. These are the hardest days, but also the days where we…
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IEP Meetings: Big decisions, information briefly in hand, fleeting staff.
It’s become common to receive IEP or any major documents an hour before meetings with long-lasting decisions for our girls. Then we are expected to make huge decisions on the spot while staff members floated in and out. Ridiculous.
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Emails, Written Notes, Apps: Document everything for when things go wrong.
Jeanne ran out of school two days in a row. Her team communicated using different tools so we couldn’t confirm they had all the details. All I wanted was an accurate incident report to use in advocating for more safety and staff resources for my child. The administration didn’t want to look bad so they…
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Finding the one who gets it.
Why babysitters are hard to find for children with autism. Jeanne rode away from home on her bike. We had hired two babysitters for this very scenario. One babysitter stayed with the younger two of our three kids while the other babysitter tailed Jeanne. The babysitters also called their mom who got in her car…
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