My non-verbal son with autism has always been fiercely anti-mask…although not for a political reason.
A single father shares how being shaped by his nonverbal son and teenage daughter reframed what strength, love, and success really mean.
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Sending My Special Needs Child Back To School After Lockdown
Distance learning wasn’t made for children like my boy and, even when he was on task, he wasn’t actually taking in new information.
An Important Part Of Being A Grown-Up
It’s about making your kids happy even when you don’t remember the meaning of the word. It’s about putting the smile on their faces that you wish you could put on your own.
…And Then They Canceled The Rest Of The School Year
This entire process went from a minor annoyance to a major catastrophe. Suddenly the new normal today was something that would have seemed like science fiction in February.
How Are The Kids?
One day without school turned into two and then three and then fifteen. Soon, no one knew what day it was, when things were going back to normal, and what exactly was happening.
Positively Fed-Up
Sometimes those golden sentiments of happy-happy joy-joy work in the opposite direction.
Calmly Talking To Your Kids About The End Of The World
Everything started to get cancelled. Basketball, school, Tom Hanks…The sky hadn’t fallen yet. But, man, it felt like it was closing in.
If Not For These Kids…
I know we’re not supposed to mention those things. It makes us uncomfortable, but we’re all adults here.
You Don’t Have To Be A Parenting Cliché
Don’t let anyone tell you that you’ll have to lose them one day. You don’t have to do anything that you don’t want to.
The Almost Worst Christmas With My Favorite Person
Had you told me two days earlier that this would have been Christmas, I would have screamed in worried agony. I would have called it a failure and seen my biggest fear become a reality.
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