Years ago, I went to a very fancy destination wedding for a relative. I’m from Minnesota and hang with the crowd that gets their fanciest dresses at the local department store or maybe Kohl’s if they have one of those coupons. This was the kind of wedding where everyone wore designer one of a kind […]
Mama-on-Days: Surviving Airplane Flights: the toddler years and beyond
One of the worst flights we took was when the Biscuit was 2 years old. This was about his fourth or fifth trip. I’d prepared. I had bags of snacks, I made 15 busy bags, I had a bag full of no no items like rolls of tape. I bought a special harness to buckle […]
Soapbox Saturday: If They Could Then They Would
I don’t know that I’ve ever mentioned that my 9 year old nephew has significant language and cognitive delays and is primarily nonverbal. It’s difficulty position to be in as a speech language pathologist-when you notice that a relative or a friend’s child is not meeting the developmental milestones. Do you say something or do […]
Soapbox Saturday: Why our words matter more than we realize
My son has recently started to make little books on his own. He writes “words” in them or sometimes copies words that he has seen and illustrates them. Last week, I went to pick him up from childcare and saw that he had made a book that was sitting on the counter. I asked him […]
Surviving the Polar Vortex while single handedly treating articulation AND language disorders.
It’s been a little chilly here the past few days. As I write this the temperatures is -17, which is better than yesterday morning when it was -22. We don’t get this cold very often. It’s the kind of cold that makes your feet cramp up if you don’t have good boots. When you go […]
Mama-on-Days: Tales from the Elf
Last year I bought an Elf on the Shelf. We named it….something. I forgot to write it down. I lost it for about 2 1/2 weeks. We have a little miniature pinscher and I spent my days running in the room before the Biscuit glancing frantically around for plastic bits of elf remains. About a […]
Saturday Soapbox: Grade level Shmade level
My Saturday Soapbox series in November was focused on some of my “goal pet peeves.” You can check out my previous posts by clicking on the links below. I don’t know where to start when you write a goal like that. It’s an IEP not a grocery list Just because they got it wrong on […]
Mama-on-Days: A Christmas reminder and warning
Watching the news report the holiday sales, I’m struck by how much time and attention we give to retail and shopping. Pictures of people shoving each other to get the best deal or one of the few televisions that a store puts out to lure shoppers into their store. Shopping and reporting on shopping has […]
Saturday Soapbox: Just because they qualified with that score doesn’t mean they should be judged by it.
My Saturday Soapbox series in November was focused on some of my “goal pet peeves.” You can check out my previous posts by clicking on the links below. I don’t know where to start when you write a goal like that. It’s an IEP not a grocery list Just because they got it wrong on […]
Saturday Soapbox: I don’t know where to start when you write a goal like that.
My Soapbox Saturdays were focused on goal pet peeves this November. Learning to write effective long term goals and objectives is difficult. Sometimes you write something that seems to make sense at the time, but when you go back to measure it or plan for it, it doesn’t work in the way that you thought. […]
