We Go With Him

Today I started to read Engaging Autism: Using the Floortime Approach to Help Children Relate, Communicate, and Think by Stanley Greenspan and Serene Wiedman. Dr.... Read more →

Ever since we moved into my in-laws' house a few weeks ago Jim and I have been internet vagabonds, speeding off to our offices or... Read more →

"Giff, phone!" Said Charlie when my cell phone rang. "Bye bye!" And, when I put my hand in my bag to give Jim a quick... Read more →

When I was a child and complained of not feeling well, my parents responded with a litany of questions: "Is it your stomach? Is it... Read more →

If it were up to Charlie, I think he would just wear the same black slip-on shoes everywhere---school, beach, pool. He is agreeable about wearing... Read more →

Seeing that J-Mac has been nominated for an ESPY (along with the likes of Kobe Bryant), I think it may be time to give Charlie... Read more →

We were on the road, literally, at 7.30am today, headed for Philadelphia where I gave a presentation on teaching classical Greek and other foreign languages... Read more →

In English, we tend to speak of three main tenses of verbs as past, present, and future: Something happened, something is happening, something will happen.... Read more →

There was an end of the year party in Charlie's classroom today----I was the last parent there after having to double-back to get the lavendar... Read more →

The gooey, icky, sticky, melting rubber marshmallow slimey sensation of a fistful of, well, goo, with soft spikes---- That's the sensation I suspect Charlie likes... Read more →

Charlie must have jumped off the diving board 20 times yesterday evening. He has a new jumping style: He crouches down a bit and does... Read more →

Charlie's initial "I'll go along with it, it's fine" reaction has often given away a few days later to "well, now that you know me... Read more →

Jim and I have been frankly surprised at the almost common-sensical---even a bit blasé---way in which Charlie is adjusting to his new surroundings. It is... Read more →

Jim and I have been speculating about "what's different" about Charlie's face, when we see him among other kids his age as I did today... Read more →

Charlie has started to take piano lessons. We have long hoped that he might play, ever since his toddlerhood when he sat on my lap... Read more →

Despite being found with a very upset stomach on his bed by Jim at 4am, running and stomping around the house from then until 7am,... Read more →

A faith healer, as I understand it, heals by faith---by spiritual means alone---by the laying-on-of-hands, by prayers. So has faith healing come to be associated... Read more →

As predicted, Friday afternoon (starting at 12.40pm) was a struggle for Charlie whose internal clock sensed (1) the impending weekend without school's predictable structure and... Read more →

It is the middle of June; Charlie is one month into being nine years old; summer starts next week. I have been cheering, or sighing,... Read more →

Bang bang bang. The electrician had stayed late to do some wiring at my father-in-law's house---I mean, at our house---so hard to think of the... Read more →