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Tips For Helping Your Autistic Teen Excel At Life

Autism, regardless of age, is challenging on the best of days. The teen years are especially challenging due to hormones, the desire to fit in, etc. even for a typical child. There is hope, however, for helping your autistic teen thrive in their surroundings. You simply need to think outside

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How To Teach Black History In Your Homeschool

One of the biggest misconceptions is that black history should be taught only in its commemorative month of February. The truth of the matter is black history has roots reaching deeper than American and should be taught throughout the year as well as across the curriculum. How you can teach

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How To Pamper Yourself As An Autism Mom

As an autism mom, you spend most of your days waking up early, getting ready, getting the kids out of bed and dressed, making breakfast, driving them to therapy, homeschooling, etc… the list is endless with things you do during the day. Day in and day out, you do the

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The Great Leprechaun Invasion

Leprechauns invaded us while we were sleeping. They made quite a mess but left chocolate. Anytime you leave chocolate, all is forgiven. Always remember that! JoJo swears that he woke up at 3AM and saw them.  It was so cute. Those naughty leprechauns used our very own toilet paper to

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3 Simple Ways To Motivate Your Autistic Kids

As an autism parent, your focus is to provide your autistic child with the best supports needed in order to live their best quality of life. You want to teach them the skills they need to accomplish this goal. A key part though is they have to be vested in

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How To Teach Your Teenage Son With Autism To Shave

Learning to shave as a teenager with autism is a hygiene skill that requires practice as well as trial and error.  The teenage years can be so daunting even without autism.  Add in the idiosyncrasies  of autism, as well all the sensory issues that it brings, and you have a

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How To Teach Safety Skills To Autistic Children

Teaching safety skills to autistic children is imperative in our rapidly changing unsafe world. Most children have this innate sense of danger that keeps them relatively safe. My autistic kid lacks any sense of danger which inherently puts him in more danger than his sister. As with all skills you

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Some days there is just nothing fun about being an autism parent. Take comfort in that even typical parents are fumbling their way through this parenting gig.

How to Rock Being An Autism Parent

Some days there is just nothing fun about being an autism parent. However, the good days usually outweigh the autism rising ones. Good news is that you are probably better at it than you give yourself credit for and others would agree. Take comfort in the fact that even typical

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How To Use AngelSense At Walt Disney World

Recently, we we returned to Florida to visit family as well as attend the FPEA convention with our favorite vendor, Writeshop. While there, we of course went to the Most Magical Place On Earth aka Walt Disney World. I like to use theme parks to work on skills with Logan.

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