Five Tips For Spoonie Parents

Five Tips For Spoonie Parents

  A spoonie is someone who is living with a chronic illness. It refers to the idea that such a person has a limited number of spoons (as an analogy for energy) to use each day. I’m a spoonie because I’m autistic and also have chronic fatigue...
Parenting Autistic Children – Routine

Parenting Autistic Children – Routine

As well as being an autistic woman I am also the mother of an autistic child. I haven’t talked about his autism on the blog much out of respect for his privacy. I would hate to think of his school friends Googling his name and finding potentially embarrassing...
Robo Boy’s sixth birthday

Robo Boy’s sixth birthday

                      Robo Boy is turning six. Six years ago he made his way into the world, and boy did we know he was here. Tenacious, creative, and so very, very loving. He’s our boy and we adore him.  So...
Why don’t my children listen to me?

Why don’t my children listen to me?

Do you ever get the feeling that your children are the worst behaved kids in the entire world, and in fact in the history of time? Sometimes I do. I mean I know that really they’re just normal kids. In fact I’m told by reliable sources (i.e. not the voices...
Why I’m giving up reading parenting advice

Why I’m giving up reading parenting advice

I’m giving up reading parenting advice. Why? Because reading parenting advice is making me nuts. It’s giving me a serious case of multiple parenting styles disorder. Unable to decide on the best way to handle things I approach parenting like one of those...