Anika’s Thoughts of the week 1

You know, we have to think of our children but the way we do so is key.  As Johnathan continues to grow and develop, the way ew parent him changes.  And in school we can see that they do the same thing, too.

And when you have a child with special needs (or on the spectrum) or, ok, I am going to call them DIFFERENT needs.  Because every child is unique, and they ALL have separate needs and desires.  Individuality is key and sometimes we even need to remember that with our own children.  They are not all the same, just because they come from the same two parents.

Childhood is a promising and challenging world we are born.  As parents and child, we have to learn how to live with each other, then other people.  But the home has become much more relaxed, as society recovers from the effects of Covid and the strains it put on everyone, even killing many and disabling others.  Not everyone, of course.  But things changed for many of us - whether to good or bad,

One of the things Johnathan said to Kevin and I the other night that we didn\t understand because we had never been through what hie had gone through.  I will admit if I was to ask that question many years ago (well 40ish).I would never have received an answer.

However, in these days people give their children more information so I sat in his room with him and told him of incidents that showed him answers that he couldn’t refuse to that we HAD been through the same things he was going through now and understood 

TREASURE

Spending time with family is important, but spending it with your children and cheering them up by telling them we DO understand and are speaking from a position of knowledge, not ignorance