Do Something! Dream Dreams!
Thursday, October 30th, 2008 Posted in autism | No Comments »There is a great blog post from skifoozle.wordpress.com entitled what's happened to our dreams?. Why do we dream, why do we strive, why do we act? Is it for the end goal? I would say not so much. It is the ...
TDAH - Playing Games with the Kids - Update
Thursday, October 30th, 2008 Posted in Playing Games | No Comments »We are still playing games every day. The game of choice for the past 2 weeks continues to be mancala. My daughter loves this game and is getting to be quite good at it. She is also developing good math ...
TDAH - Playing Games with the Kids - Days 9 -13
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 Posted in Playing Games | No Comments »Things have been extremely busy with work, home, etc., so I haven't been able to post as often as I would like. I have maintained the challenge of playing games with the kids everyday with one exception. I was gone on ...
TDAH - Playing Games with the Kids - Day 8
Thursday, October 9th, 2008 Posted in Reading with Kids | No Comments »Today's game of choice was Ker Plunk by Mattel. We had two quick games before bed time. Ker Plunk was invented in 1967 and involves a plastic upright tube, plastic rods and marbles. The rods are inserted into the tube and ...
TDAH - Playing Games with the Kids - Day 7
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 Posted in Playing Games | No Comments »Today was the day of my wife's domination over the family. We played the game in which she is unbeaten. She is willing to take on all challengers! The name of the game is Cranium Jam Pack Jam. It is a ...
TDAH - Playing Games with the Kids - Day 6
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 Posted in Playing Games | No Comments »Today's game was a rousing battle of Candyland. All 4 of us played and we had a good time. My wife was the winner as she was fortunate to get the ice cream cone card to propel her to the ...
TDAH - Playing Games with the Kids - Day 3-5
Monday, October 6th, 2008 Posted in Playing Games | No Comments »On day 3 all four of us played the game Blokus. Blokus is a game that requires spatial reason with a variety of shapes. The playing pieces are "tetris" shapes that must be placed so that it touches at least ...
TDAH: Playing Games with the Kids - Day 2
Friday, October 3rd, 2008 Posted in Playing Games | 3 Comments »Day 2 of this month's Test Drive a Habit of playing a game with the kids everyday. Today's game was Mario Kart for the Wii. We had a college student over for supper and he stayed and played Mario Kart ...
Test Drive a Habit: Playing Games with the Kids
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 Posted in Playing Games | No Comments »My Test Drive a Habit for this month is to play a game each day with the kids. I enjoyed my TDAH of daily reading with the kids and thought that this would be a good intentional way to spend ...
Autism: Rep. Maloney’s Autism-Vaccine Meeting
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 Posted in autism | No Comments »On Wednesday September 24th, 2008, Rep. Maloney held a meeting on autism and vaccines. The list of those in attendance can be found here. 60 members of the House and 30 members of the Senate were represented. 51 Democrats, 38 Republicans ...
