I don’t know if this would actually surprise people who know me or not. It probably shouldn’t be a shock, but who knows?
travel
If Found, Please Call
Going to the Please Touch Museum brings out our major issue when we’re in public – the fact that our Monster is a runner.
In specific, if we’re not really paying attention to what he’s doing, he’s liable to take off in any given direction. Even with us paying attention, there were times that he dashed off and it took us a few moments to lock on to where he’d disappeared to. Continue reading
On The Road – Please Touch Museum (Philadelphia, PA)
Since summer is ending for the Monster after this weekend, we decided to take part of the weekend to do a mini-vacation.
Originally, we’d planned on taking the entire weekend to go away, but given how we’ve had issues previously with massive disruptions to his schedule and issues we had with finding a reasonably-priced hotel, we decided to knock it down to a single day trip. Continue reading
Forecasting
Parents of children with ASDs are, I’m sure, aware of one of the biggest things we can do to ensure that our children behave themselves – make sure that there’s a factor of predictability to what’s going on. The Monster, for example, knows his schedule well – whether he sticks to it himself is another matter altogether, but.
Of course, going on a trip means throwing that all into chaos. Continue reading
Half the Fun
I was reading an article over at MSNBC.com yesterday, regarding a three year old who was thrown off an Alaska Air flight. To me, the fact that the airline acted improperly is just one facet of the problem in this case – it takes reading the entire page, including comments, to see what the larger issue is. Continue reading