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When Our Kids Become Adults

As Neal celebrates his 16th birthday, I am met with the realities of parenting a child with severe autism. Neal will always need me to care for him. Yes, he has come so far in his development. At one time too frighten…
A Mom’s Story: Autism and Family Income

Guest post by Melanie Schrader, an active volunteer with the St. Louis chapter of Autism Speaks. Being a working mom, especially a single working mom, can be difficult for anyone. Being a working mother and having a c…
Child Raising Philosophies

Do you remember the days when people spent more time raising their own children than telling other people how to raise theirs? When no one particularly cared what brand of baby bottles you were using, whether or not y…
What's Next: Kindergarten... Preschool...Life Skills?

Charlie's first teacher, Miss Ginette, was a Godsend with a capital G. She is patient, loving, kind and most of all she is consistent in her training of Charlie. I was, at first, determined not to like the school beca…
What Autism Has Taught Me

Autism is strange in its ability to teach. Sometimes it seems like autism came into my life (through my wonderful daughter) just to make me grow in the areas I most needed to. To name a few things I suffer from: envy…
Special Needs Parents: Isolation, Grief, Guilt, and Fear

All special needs parents suffer from grief. Whatever “Normal” is, it is no small thing to lose. The grief is not a linear process. Some days and some years it will be better, some will be worse. Expect to…
A boy, his brain and his heart

During dinner tonight, Cameron (my 6 yr old with Autism) began to explain that he did bad things yesterday because his brain told him too. His brain gave him the bad ideas and he had to listen to his brain and so th…
An Unusual Play Date Story

Benny craves friendships and has made a few close friends over the past three years. It takes a solid, strong and insightful child to make it past the first few play dates with Benny. Benny often ignores his friend…
Not Treating Him Differently

As I have posted a number of times I have a son with autism. He is verbal and is a very sweet child; however, there are people that think he and children like him should be treated differently. As a parent of an auti…
"All I Can Handle: I'm No Mother Teresa"

I just love this girl. Let me introduce to you, Kim Stagliano, mother of three beautiful daughters, who are on the Autism Spectrum. I met Kim years ago when I was in my research mode online--trying to find…