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Can I Teach Finn to Read?
This question has begun to loom large in my mind. It all kind of started a few weeks back when I discovered that Finn has picked up letter recognition, object identification, and matching pictures to...
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Down Syndrome Blues
Yes, it happens. For all my advocacy, for all of my pushing the world to see beyond Finn’s disability, I get down about it sometimes. As a whole, his having Down syndrome really does sit fine with...
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Let me say first that when you are a parent of a child with special needs, and you hop on the advocacy bandwagon, it becomes difficult to openly talk about things that might tarnish the less than shiny...
View ArticleIn the Glow of the Nightlight
I was going to write about Finn’s behavior issues, and how taxing it’s been lately dealing with them. Remember that screaming I wrote about a while back? I was going to sit down tonight and write how...
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Another Hard Day
I don’t want to belabor the negative, but today was pretty awful. It actually started out good. Finn woke up and seemed in a decent mood. He even ate his breakfast with nary a complaint. I took this...
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Finn
I took Finn to the pediatrician this morning. Actually, we just saw a nurse practitioner because she was the only one in the office with an opening this morning when I called in desperation yesterday...
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Last I wrote about Finn, I had taken him to the pediatrician in an effort to see if there might be a physical/medical cause to his stormy moods lately. The nurse practitioner couldn’t find anything...
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Finn: He’s Back!
Mostly, anyway. He seemed to have turned a corner a few days ago. I’ve been holding my breath all week, waiting for a major meltdown, but for the most part he seems to be back to his old good-natured...
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Finn’s New Specs
Remember how way back last August when I took Finn to the pediatrician for his 4-year checkup, I told the doctor how Finn’s left eye had been turning in frequently and I was concerned? Remember how...
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Five Years of Finnian
Last Sunday morning, Finn scampered into our room and got into bed with us. As he snuggled beside me, I whispered to him, “Do you remember snuggling up beside me in this very spot five years ago...
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