How to help your child eat (spectrum support ch. 6)

How to Help Your Child Eat From March 14, 2017 “Turning a Grasshopper Into Food” What do you know about an eating disorder called “problem feeding”? This was the term presented to me at Primary Children’s Hospital, where my son first went to receive food therapy. It’s different from other eating disorders like anorexia or […]

How to Help Your Child Concentrate: (spectrum support ch. 5)

Autism Adventures; How to Help Your Child Concentrate From March 2, 2017 This tip is something I picked up from my son’s OT (occupational therapists). In order for your child to concentrate, they need to first organize themselves. When I say “organize themselves” I don’t mean a revolution, lol. I mean helping your child organize […]

Meltdowns and emotional management: (Spectrum Support, ch 4)

Managing Your Emotions Around Meltdowns; I used to have meltdowns along with my son almost every time he had one. Now, with practice and time I can stay calm for most of them. And since the writing of this book, even his meltdowns have significantly decreased! Most people can get away with dwelling in the […]

How to Help Your Child to Stop Biting (spectrum support, ch. 3)

Biting; How to Help Your Child Communicate Without Aggression Aggression can very easily creep in and build to overshadow other progress. It’s been a painstakingly long process, but the data shows we are past the end of the extinction bursts of this behavior. The original blog entry addresses the first round. The update addresses how […]

Silver Linings; speech apps: (Spectrum Support, Ch. 2)

Autism Adventures; Silver Linings Spring 2021: It’s been 7 years since my son received his diagnosis. I’ve described some techniques that have helped him develop daily living abilities. The second year, about 2015, he started banging his head against the wall and meltdowns that literally lasted not just hours, but days. Sometimes these extended meltdowns […]

Autism + optimism: (Spectrum support, ch.1)

So Your Child Has Autism; What I wish I’d known when I first learned my son was on the spectrum.

Pain and pleasure

From Happy Tips Chapter 21 Love may be the most daunting step toward happiness. Fully loving yourself means accepting all parts of yourself, and risking getting hurt. What would it take to welcome every side of you into the world, and invest in building something bigger than yourself with a community? It takes time and […]

Time To Change

(From “Happy Tips” Chapter 31) It took me many years to turn my life around. I’d read books and listened to life coaches who told me that it could happen instantly. So I tried, and I’d truly believed the changes I sought could happen that fast. When they didn’t, the defeat I felt was beyond […]

Happy TIPS Paperback

Click Here To See Happy Tips Book A decade long journey, researching happiness applications and emotional wellness, is jam packed and organized into this handbook on happiness–Happiness, that is, in the context of the emotional spectrum. If you’re looking for strategies for handling challenging and unexpected life circumstances, then this book is for you. With […]

Emotional Spectrum

Emotional Spectrum A whole spectrum of valid emotions courses through each of us. Contrary to popular connotation, no emotion is bad. Each serves a purpose. The bad part only happens when a person stays in an emotion too long, letting it take control, or making poor decisions about how to act on an emotion. It’s […]