First, establish a target location for each of these things ( Read more... )

Charlie (age 6, newly) has an expressive and receptive language delay/disorder which makes it hard for him to express himself in words, particularly as it relates to complex grammar and extra particularly when he's feeling strong emotions.  On the other hand, he is very comfortable with numbers, so he often uses them to express superlatives and ( Read more... )

Well, there's about a year of catch-up to do here so I'll jump right in ( Read more... )

(after a shower)
Me: Charlie, when I say I want privacy in the shower, I mean it. Your curiosity is not as important as another person wanting privacy.
Charlie: No.
Me: Yeah! It's called bodily autonomy.
Charlie: No it's not.
Me: Then what's it called?
Charlie: It's called....nothing.


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Me: *working the computer ( Read more... )

Me: Did you play with your friends at school ( Read more... )

Upon arriving at the toy store to buy a birthday present for his friend ( Read more... )

So Charlie has started asking me "what's wrong with your elbow?" when I'm sitting next to him at bedtime. He pokes it and says "do you have an owie?" and then asks what's wrong with it ( Read more... )

Charlie (yelling from upstairs): Come upstairs, Mommy!

Me: (muttering from my downstairs desk): I'll be there in a minute.

Charlie: One, two, three! You come upstairs RIGHT! NOW! Mommy!

Crossposted from http://marydell.dreamwidth.org/217719.html, where there are
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I'm thinking today about the way we measure ourselves as mothers.  I suppose we all have a set of mothers in our heads--the ideal one we think we should be;  the bad one we strive not to be and maybe fear being.  Maybe we were raised by a version of one of those archetypes, and are measuring ourselves against our memories and hopes.  If we adopted ( Read more... )