The Quiet Crisis Next Door

Tag: FASD and rigidity

  • What Some Kiddos Need To Stay Afloat Through School Changes

    I wonder how many parents take for granted that they can just drop their kids off at school or send them out the door to a bus stop and know that their kiddo is going to swim along through the year just fine without anything outside the expected start of the school year traditions being…

  • Something New, Something Zoo

    Friends, Family, & Loved Ones: I am going to be taking the next month off from writing here. I am stressed. I am overwhelmed. There’s a lot going on, and we’re once again needing to support a more beefed up therapy schedule as our son’s new ABA provider has begun services this week. There are…

  • “Show Me The Changes!”

    The seeds of the problem were sprouted and had grown strong roots before we had received any diagnoses past Tony’s sensory processing disorder. I, as a mother just trying to cope with an overwhelming array of challenges related to our son’s health had just been diagnosed with medication-induced liver disease. Andy was in graduate school,…