Autism Awareness

Today is “World Autism Awareness Day”.  These parents deserve our utmost support and praise. These pervasive developmental disorders are not all severe and debilitating.  Many kids have what is called Asperger’s Syndrome characterized by social difficulties, a narrow range of interests, and a lack of emotional and social reciprocity.  Social skill and emotional coping therapies have helped these children significantly …

Sharpies!

Austin writer Maya Perez, mother of a three year old, recently shared some feelings and thoughts that most all of us have experienced at one time or another.  This weekend I was tested personally when spending the day with my two year old son, Kash.  As I became engrossed in SportsCenter he managed to toddle into …

Love

A great reminder by the group 33Miles that we only get just one time around.Love  If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, …

“Cool” Parents

This disturbing news article could have easily been written about Coppell, Flower Mound, Southlake, Lewisville, etc.  I regularly and routinely hear about such events from adolescents.  Teens move from house to house on the weekends depending upon which parents are out of town or which parents will allow parties.  A 2005 research study by the American Medical …