Category: Parenting Advice
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I feel for those with littles
How are you parents with little ones with autism doing? I was at Sam’s Club the other day – we needed some oranges and apples. I decided to grab a bag of rice for good measure. I had wanted to do order pickup, but they wouldn’t let me order almond milk, so had to go…
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Everything is a video game!
Last night I had my teenage son help me prepare supper. We were making Chicken Étoufée, so there was a lot of: cook this for a while, then add this and cook it some more, then add this other thing, etc, all while stirring continuously. At one point, I was stirring, and asked him to…
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How to Get Your Tweenager to Clean Her Room
I discovered, quite by accident, how to get my tweenager to thoroughly clean her room. I couldn’t believe all of the garbage that was cleared out. The surfaces were dusted, some for the first time in years (I had given up even trying to find those surfaces some years back)! Dishes I had forgotten even…
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If You Give a Boy an Allowance…
When my son and daughter were toddlers I did some research on whether or not I should give them an allowance when they got older. Some sources said that you shouldn’t give kids money unless they do work way above and beyond the normal running of the household. They need to learn to be a…
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Potty-training tips that worked on my kids, anyway…
Since I have a “normal,” or neurotypical (NT) child and a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) here’s a few things that I found worked when it came to potty training. I honestly don’t remember how I trained my NT child to use the toilet instead of her diaper, because she trained pretty easily. Well,…