The Thinking Blog has a post explaining how to make broccoli taste better so that people will actually eat it which is fine and dandy. But what about when you are at that grandma’s house who absolutely refuses to make vegetables fun and exciting. That isn’t my grandparents of course but what if your grandparents […]
Geetle and Pookie are starting to do things together without us needing to help encourage the interaction.
Almost every morning, Geetle helps Pookie get his breakfast (according to her at least) while we are in still asleep. She also likes to help him pick out clothes.
Recently she’s been starting to ask him random questions throughout the […]
My sister teaches 2nd grade. We stopped by to check out her classroom over the weekend. Somehow the topic of school lunches came up. I have fond memories of the rectangular, super greasy pizzas. I would eat those right now if I could find them.
Anyway, my sister confirmed that there is […]
We all agree that playing basketball in the drive way with our kids is a good thing, right? And we can all probably agree that a little Yahtzee or Monopoly now and then with the whole family would be a good idea.
But what about computer games?
Do you think the bonding could outweigh the couch […]
One thing I’ve read about autistic children is that they have trouble taking a concrete image or concept and abstracting it into a new area. They might know that the thing sitting in the driveway is a car but not recognize a cartoon picture of one of their books as also being a car.
Pookie is […]
