A couple of weeks ago, I dropped Soccer Girl off at a friend’s house so she could take the bus to school from there while I went to the gym. I casually asked the mom if we needed to walk the kids to the bus stop. The mom was a little shocked that I asked the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Parenting’
23 Jul
Giving up the ghost
This fall, IT Boy turns 2. It’s also the time he’s going to start going to pre-school. We signed him up when he was about 6 months, to get him a place in the wonderful nursery school that his sister went to. It’s the place where I cried when I sent her on her first [...]
11 Jul
In the swim of things
Yesterday, I took the day off to watch Little IT at a swim meet. She’s on a summer swim team that our swim club sponsors. It’s a great thing for many reasons. It meshes well with her summer camp, where they don’t really move or get out much, but since the club is located right next [...]
8 Apr
We call her Little IT for a reason
I’ve never claimed that I have the best memory for the important things. I often walk into a room forgetting why I am there. I sometimes run back into the house 3 times before leaving for work because I have forgotten _______ (insert “gym bag”, “sneakers”, “laptop”, “snacks”, “ID card”). Mind you, I can tell [...]
3 Mar
Kumbaya
Last week, we had IT Boy’s first collaborative meeting. Due to be held monthly, these meetings are intended to bring everyone on “Team Boy” together to talk about his therapies and how best to work together to achieve these goals. It was a bit daunting, this first meeting. We had our service coordinator from Early [...]
11 Feb
Boys and Girls
On Saturday, Little IT and I took IT Boy to a Valentine’s show at our local library. It wasn’t quite a musical, not quite a theatre presentation, but a little of both. When Little IT was a baby and we would attend these things, she would sit politely on my lap, clap her hands in [...]
13 Dec
Talk to me
IT Boy has started speech therapy. Two months ago, his occupational therapist (OT) recommended that he be evaluated for speech delays. Some of our shared concerns were feeding delays due to his hypotonia/low tone and his not pointing. During his subsequent speech evaluation, I could clearly see that he had many more delays than just those, [...]
8 Dec
Sorry this post was a little late…
Thursday night was not a fun time to be in the IT house. On the way back from the market, Little IT mentioned that I needed to write a note for her to take to school tomorrow.
“What kind of note?”
“A note that I couldn’t finish my skeleton for science project.”
“What science project??”
“The one that’s late.”
We [...]
6 Dec
Late Bloomer, or Truly Delayed?
Susan Etlinger’s most excellent blog The Family Room has a great post about what to do when your child is not meeting his or her milestones. It’s a horrible feeling for any parent to think that your child might have something wrong with them, but it can be made worse by well meaning others who [...]
5 Dec
Little IT, Cub Reporter
About a month ago, Little IT came home and told us that she put her name in a hat to be selected as a reporter for the school newspaper. The next day, she ecstatically told us that her name had been picked and she was indeed on the paper. She was thrilled and so were [...]
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