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Camping close to NE Florida
Since our recent camping trip with Theresa and Pat at Disney’s Fort Wilderness, we’ve been talking about where we’ll meet up next. I work with some avid campers and one of them was nice enough to put together a little packet of her favorite places convenient to Jacksonville that she likes to take her […]
Camping Checklist
While I’m sure there are a bunch of lists out there for camping supplies - some more complete than this one - after we went camping, I thought I’d share what we brought. The thing to remember about camping is 1) completeness and 2) multitaskers. The fajitas that we brought (along with the salsa and […]
Spanish Immersion/Montessori
We just found out that Punkalicious got accepted into the combined Spanish Immersion/Montessori program in the public school system for kindergarten next year.
The good news:
He’ll learn another language
He’ll continue in Montessori
He’ll be in public school
He’ll be in a classroom of 3 to 6 year olds so having a July birthday won’t make much […]
Our maladaptive children
This story has been all over the news this week, and those families who forced their children to sleep through what we consider inhumane methods (listen to our “Crying it Out” podcast) are jumping for joy.
We, on the other hand, have created maladaptive children because we choose to parent our children at night. This […]
Holy Cow - this is hillarious!!!
Taken from this site - it actually made my humorless self laugh a bunch:
Category: Dads of Boys Topic: Raising Boys–A dad’s experience
Description: Things I’ve learned from my boys (honest and not kidding): 1. A king-size waterbed holds enough water to fill a 2000 sq. ft. house 4 inches deep. 2. If you spray hair spray […]
First World Autism Awareness Day
April 2, 2008 has been designated the first World Autism Awareness Day by the United Nations.
CNN.com has had all sorts of stories about autism this week.
Autism is of special interest to us because Tom’s youngest brother, John, is autistic.
If you didn’t get a chance, check out our 4 podcasts where we interviewed his […]
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