No surprise that Charlie, despite going to sleep around 11pm, awoke at 6.30am. He knew it was the first day of summer school. He got... Read more →
June 2010
Tuesday was Transition Day with a capital T: It was Charlie's last day of being home on his week off between school ending and summer... Read more →
Today's title is brought to you courtesy of Jim, who uttered that very phrase about us three Tuesday at 4.55pm. That's the time that we... Read more →
Our Nostalgia Tour '10 continues. Sunday, we didn't go to the beach. We had to return the black minivan to the rental car place at... Read more →
Looking back over the past week's posts, we've been going a lot to the beach---last Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday and, yes, yesterday, Saturday. Guess... Read more →
Charlie is an Ocean Swimmer
25 June 2010
We got to the beach after 3pm yesterday which was a good thing, as the lifeguards stay until 5pm and Charlie wanted to be a... Read more →
Mothers of autistic children pay at work reads the headline of an article about a newly published study in the Social Science Journal. Washington State... Read more →
Wednesday we, Charlie included (but not my mom and dad who got to 'sleep in'), awoke at 4.30am, got in the white car, and went... Read more →
Tuesday, the first day of Charlie's inbetween-school-and-ESY-vacation, was a fine day, despite a lot of 'despites' (as you'll see as you read on). It started... Read more →
Expect the above scene to get repeated approximately three times a day until next week, when my mom and dad---Po Po and Gong Gong, Cantonese... Read more →
For the past two weeks, Charlie's been taking a late afternoon (5pm-ish) nap, after coming home from school, snacking, using the computer. We've been usually... Read more →
Saturday's reflection on Charlie being, like Jim, a historian contains my reflections on Father's Day. Wishing all the dads out there a lovely day with... Read more →
It may sound funny, but yesterday I realized that Charlie, like Jim, is a historian, constantly reflecting on the events of the past even while... Read more →
Thursday morning at 2.30am we heard the unmistakable sound of Charlie stomping and then the unmistakable sound of the shower turning on. I got out... Read more →
My friend Bonnie Sayers recently wrote a post on BellaOnline about toilet training adolescents on the autism spectrum. Bonnie has two sons on the spectrum;... Read more →
So I'm working on a piece on autism schools and school programs, and specifically on how to choose these, for The Thinking Person's Guide to... Read more →
The above photo shows Charlie's 'favorite things' as I call them. He refers to this whole set of objects as 'blue beads': Charlie often refers... Read more →
That's one of the phrases Charlie has been saying of late, along with a few others: 'Right now!', which I'm presuming he picked up from... Read more →
The title of this post is brought to you straight from Jim's phone: He texted 'Perfect joy plus' to me while he and Charlie were... Read more →
I was able to confirm that Thursday's afterschool in-car distress was most likely due to stomach trouble for two reasons. Number 1: There were some... Read more →