Like I could go back to work, I thought. My husband still traveled quite a bit for his job, Ronan’s needs were still pretty great, and my other kids’ afterschool and sports schedules kept me pretty busy. I longed to use my brain in a different capacity again, but the very thought...
Jessica Veronneau, of Fairhaven, Mass., said she has left public places with her children, Vivianna, 4, and Bowen, 2, because staff were not trained to help them. Advertisement “I don’t bring my kids out because I’m afraid, and it’s nice to see a lot of places just...
Let me tell you what I believe to be the long-term strategy of the pharmaceutical industry in regards to vaccinations. First, they want to establish by law the precedent that a parent cannot refuse a vaccination for their child, or they will face the draconian penalty of that child being f...
The U.S. is responsible for most of that, and for exporting those practices to other places in the world. The statement in this article:“There is simply nothing truly beneficial and many potentially harmful things that can come from eating corn.” is patently incorrect, misleading, and ...
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I give them both as much notice as I can and hope for the best. It is getting easier and I’m so thankful for that! I look at this picture and I see silence. Like the silence so many of us hear with our kids. They may make lots of noise, but the real conversation is so rare...
but I don’t want silent work shoes either because I really appreciate the auditory feedback. (The underlay matters too of course. Places with very / many hard surfaces amplify the echoes too much so it is tiring and overwhelming, and I feel significantly more clumsy and insecure if the fl...
I tell Kristine I’m leaving work to go straight to Gracie’s school, so I can speak with the staff about the incident. Kristine asks me to wait for her before I go into Gracie’s school. So both of us leave our places of employment, and meet at Gracie’s school. We go into the...
and in our communities we are faced with the unrelenting intrusion and trespass by industrial wind turbines and its associated infrastructures discharging light, noise, movement, electrical emissions into the most intimate of places that should be one of security, peace and our children’s sanctuary....
On Sundays, the kids get to play in a safe space, set aside just for autistic children. Hagi-Mohamed was a teacher. She has a degree in linguistics, but has devoted her life to advocating for autistic children in the Somali American community. Fred De Sam Lazaro: . . .Autism is not ...