We have what might be one of the most important IEP meetings of Little Miss’s life coming up the first week of March: transition into junior high school. She’ll be moving from the school with the autism support center in it to a larger school combining four elementary schools. Our district has a good number [...]
Archive for February, 2011
17 Feb
A real mood changer
Sometimes all those grumpy, tired, draggy, achy end-of-day feelings can encounter these gorgeous colors: or these, both taken on Upper Peach in Erie: and all that negativity just floats away in a cloud of awe. Thanks for the beauty of the world.
9 Feb
Happy endings
Often in domestic violence cases, we find that when an abuser starts losing control of the victim, and the victim becomes a survivor and moves out on their own, then the abuser goes after what hurts that survivor most. Usually that’s the children. I have a dozen cases in my files where mothers have lost [...]
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