Jul 12 2022
It’s been a minute since I’ve written anything. While this is the part where I usually apologize for that, I’m not going to do that anymore. The reason is because it ends up feeding this insane level of guilt that I feel for not writing and I need to stop that. The truth is that …
Jan 28 2022
A mom from one of my autism parenting support groups asked why her autistic son has meltdowns after school. This was a really good question and I wanted to share my answer here. If you’re following me on IG, you may have already seen this. There could be a million reasons but I wanted to …
Feb 03 2018
Lizze is still under the weather with a stomach thing and was unable to go with us to celebrate my Mom’s birthday last night. She needed her rest and the best way to do that is without the kids bringing down the house around her. lol The boys and I had a lot of fun …
Jan 21 2018
There are times where the only thing I can do to help Emmett is to simply stop everything and snuggle. Emmett hasn’t been feeling well and on the edge of a meltdown for the last couple of days. Many kids with Autism don’t like to be touched but Emmett is someone who responds positively to …
Apr 16 2017
Easter, as with pretty much any freaking holiday that we celebrate, puts my wife and I into a position where we need to decide whether we go to see family or stay at home. At its most basic level, this is the choice between dealing with major fallout, or limiting the amount of fallout we …
Apr 15 2017
The boys arrived home tonight in a pretty decent, but absolutely overstimulated mood. Lizze’s mom called to say that she apologized in advance because the boys are going to be a handful, and that they were. 😁 They had gone and done some Easter Egg hunts and one of the places involved dropping thousands of …
Jan 19 2017
While I feel as though we had a pretty good week, there were two things that I can pinpoint that triggered meltdowns from my youngest of three with Autism. Meltdowns are a very dynamic phenomenon because while it’s common for kids with Autism to experience them, the triggers, duration and severity of the meltdowns can …
Jan 17 2017
My day is finally winding down and aside from dinner and putting the kids to bed later on, my Daddy-Do list is finished. I was able to put a check mark in every single box today, except time on the treadmill. I just wasn’t home enough today to do that. I’m hoping to check that …
