Tag: dads

How Can That Baby Play Violin?

I watch though the lens of my camera and the lens of my fatherhood and can’t believe what I am seeing.

It’s easy to be so fixated on one specific victory that we miss all the other ones happening around us.

When you truly accept anything as a possibility then everything is perfect.

The best I can do is come storming back down the hallway mumbling about, “Freakin’ socks and this house.”

This wasn’t home and no other parents were doing it. That’s what makes it “embarrassing.”

Autism doesn’t make my son the best boy in the world. The fact that he’s mine makes him the best boy in the world.

Believing your kids can do anything is easy. Believing in your own ability to show them how to do those things is hard.

In my day, we didn’t have internet. We had prank phone calls and they were awesome.

Having Autism or any special needs doesn’t mean the absence of personality or humor. All of his quirks – good and bad – are his and I love him.

Suddenly all the corny nonsense you were forced to do for the sake of family unity has become a source of humiliation again.