Comments on: “Don’t Cry, Mom. I’m With You”

By: admin

admin — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:05:21 +0000

Eleizabeth, good advice, and yes, we did quit Scouts. What we learned/were confused about was that my son LIKED the scouting activities, but he DISLIKED the unstructured mayhem of kids being kids during activity downtime. The BSA offers a program called One Scout that we may take up. The One Scout program was developed for boys that live in rural areas that don’t have enough kids to form a den. We’re also looking into chess, sound mixing and other things he may enjoy more. – Mae

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:23:18 +0000

Maybe cubscouts is not for him? The trick is finding a balance whereby you accept your son and encourage without forcing him to be what he’s not. Perhaps he would prefer the time to himself, to engage in his interests. My son never took to cubscouts.

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Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:36:22 +0000

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By: admin

admin — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:04:11 +0000

Hi Erica, Thanks for stopping by! – Mae

By: Erica

Erica — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:14:38 +0000

Hi, saw you on the autisable site.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:19:39 +0000

Thanks, Lisa. Yes, our children are remarkably perceptive, especially on the subject of their mamas! – Mae

By: Lisa Gergets

Lisa Gergets — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:14:08 +0000

My god, what a post! How intuitive they are, our little blessings-in-disguise!

You’re a good mama. I worry about the same stuff all the time. All we can do is our best and trust in that.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:43:05 +0000

Thanks, Elise. “Our childen understand themselves and they will do things in their own good time.” How encouraging! – Mae

By: Elise

Elise — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:06:29 +0000

You did great. Sometimes we can plan all we want and things do not work out. Our childen understand themselves and they will do things in their own good time. But this does not mean we do not keep trying and planning and organizing for them. We never know when that spark will ignite so just keep trying.

BTW who ever said our children were not empathetic never met your Connor. Now that is a great step forward. So you see something maybe even more important was accomplished that day.