Dr. Temple Grandin is possibly the most famous autistic person to date. The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow is a Horizon (BBC) episode about her life, which mainly deals with how she’s been able to cope with the difficulties inherent in Autism as well as use her unique abilities to craft an exciting [...]
Estée Klar from The Joy of Autism has posted a video (which aired in 2008 on CBC) called Positively Autistic on her site. It shows what it’s like to be Autistic but from the perspective of adult Autistics, which most people aren’t exposed to. Some wonderful quotes from clip 1:
The lack of positive [...]
Right about this time of year is when a lot of Massachusetts Homeschoolers send in their letter of intent to the local school district. Basically, Massachusetts requires that parents send a letter of intent every year before the start of the school year in September stating their desire to homeschool their child and the [...]
I’ve been busy getting everything together for the first TEN lessons of the Preparatory Curriculum from letteroftheweek.com. I’m only up to Lesson 3 so I won’t be back until I’ve finished all ten or we start the first lesson- whichever comes first.
Ingrid @ February 3, 2010
It was a beautiful night here. I am grateful that all three of my kids can say “Trick or Treat” and “Happy Halloween” this year.
L - R: Sweet Coco, Kamikaze, and Tremendo dressed as Link and wearing their Mommy made hats.
Kamikaze and Tremendo showing their fighting stance and Daddy made shields.
Hope your night was as fun as ours.
Ingrid @ November 1, 2009
Princess Zelda & Link (the main characters of The Legend of Zelda)
Tremendo has been quite taken with The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker video game. There have been many squabbles with Kamikaze over game cube time. Because of this we’ve had some bedtime issues where Tremendo wants to keep playing way past his bedtime (8:30 – 9:00pm).
Tonight in order to have as stress free a bedtime as possible I began warning him that it would be bed time as early as 40 minutes before I wanted him in bed. Each time I said, “Tremendo, bed time in X minutes.” He would yell back, “I can’t!”.
Finally when the fated hour arrived I sat on the couch and watched what he was doing. He was up to the part where he finally gets his sword back. I warned him that after he gets his sword it would be time for bed. He got his sword and watched the little movie that accompanies such accomplishments in the game and didn’t protest at all when I told him it was time.
He grabbed his sword (made his own with linking cubes) and shield (one of my pot lids) and allowed me to brush his teeth without a single protest. I put him to bed and said, “Good night, Link.” As I walked out of the room he said, “Good night, Princess.” My heart melted, of course, and I had to call Vic up and tell him what happened.
I’m so glad I took the time to help him transition peacefully, what a wonderful reward.
Ingrid @ October 4, 2009
