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	<title>Autism is Not the Boss &#187; parenting a child with autism</title>
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	<description>Parenting tips for children on the autism spectrum. Is it possible to live with autism without losing your mind, your life savings, or your spouse? Yes! It may be an uphill climb at times, but there are also some surprisingly easy spots. So for those parents who are determined to enjoy life with autism, welcome.</description>
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		<title>Keeping It Simple: Dr. Temple Grandin&#8217;s Top 5 Parenting Tips for Autism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 14:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I get lost in all of the therapies, advice, opinions and &#8216;new findings&#8217; related to autism. That&#8217;s when I refer back to five simple tips for autism parenting provided by the renowned Dr. Temple Granding  last year during an interview for one of my Examiner.com columns.  I find myself referring back to these rules again and again to regain my focus and areas of priority. Here are the five tips, re-posted for your convenience. I hope they help other parents as they have helped me:
1. Develop the child&#8217;s areas of strengths. Focusing only on delays and weaknesses is not the answer. Developing areas of <a href="http://autismisnottheboss.com/2011/04/keeping-it-simple-dr-temple-grandins-top-5-parenting-tips-for-autism/"> Continue reading...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Autism Ups and Downs: When Parents Lose Their Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Losing our way as parents happens.  Typically, it begins with the nagging doubt  that we aren&#8217;t doing something quite right, but we cannot  for the life of us figure out what it is. Sometimes the realization is a false alarm generated by other stressors in our lives.  Other times, the doubt is based in reality, but the underlying issue is easily identified and corrected by advice from other parents,  professionals or the ever-helpful Google search engine.
But other times, we parents do come to a point where we don&#8217;t know what to do, and all of the advice, research and theory just won&#8217;t cut it.   We need hands-on <a href="http://autismisnottheboss.com/2010/09/autism-ups-and-downs-when-parents-lose-their-way/"> Continue reading...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Resolutions for an &#8216;Autism Mom&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Autism and life are inextricable,  but certainly not incompatible nor joyless.  Sometimes, though, thriving with autism might take a bit more planning and commitment. Thus, with high hopes and good intentions, I join with many others in making my 2010 New Year&#8217;s resolutions. Here are mine, which have been tailored to an autism-friendly mode:
1. To stop dithering about my son&#8217;s educational placement, and get him where he needs and wants to be.  It all started with Connor&#8217;s statement, &#8221;There are too many students and staff at my school.  I can&#8217;t concentrate.&#8221; All the sleepless nights, hand-wringing and relationship-cultivating efforts with the special education staff won&#8217;t change the fact <a href="http://autismisnottheboss.com/2009/12/new-years-resolutions-for-an-autism-mom/"> Continue reading...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>After the Autism Diagnosis: A Grieving Process or an Adjustment Process?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the current climate of understated research findings, referenced by the much-publicized, but not-so-startling discovery that &#8220;autism is stressful for parents,&#8221; I would like to join in the trend of groundbreaking underestimation. Ready? Here goes&#8230;.Autism is an adjustment process. Yep, you heard it here, in all of its lack of clarity and definition. Autism is an adjustment.
And I like the phrase. Adjustment is a much more positive descriptor than the alternatives my husband and I heard when we first learned about our son&#8217;s diagnosis. Phrases we heard were autism is a grieving process, or  a he&#8217;ll-grow-out-of-it process, or for the disenchanted, hell on <a href="http://autismisnottheboss.com/2009/08/after-the-autism-diagnosis-a-grieving-process-or-an-adjustment-process/"> Continue reading...</a>]]></description>
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