Autonomy - Mastery - Purpose Aimed at adults who have already heard the starting gun, these are three things that Malcolm Gladwell (Outliers) and Dan Pink (Drive) have written about in terms of meaningful work and a meaningful life. These are also incredibly important parts of growing up. As infants and toddlers, the focus [...]
Tagged acceptance, Asperger's Syndrome, autism, awareness, Life, Mastery, parenting, passionAutism blogger Lisa Jo Rudy once challenged parents to “quit autism for just one day.” Your child with autism may always be autistic, but there are places and circumstances in which it either doesn’t matter – or in which your child’s special talents make autism irrelevant. Whether it’s at the beach, in the woods, at [...]
Tagged acceptance, Asperger's Syndrome, autism, awareness, Life, parentingI have had a lot of teachers throughout my life. Some taught me because they were paid to, some because they were supposed to, and some because they wanted to. Many of the best teachers in my life, though, had no idea that they were teaching me. (Or, perhaps more accurately, that I was learning [...]
Tagged acceptance, Asperger's Syndrome, autism, awareness, Life, parentingEvery now and then when I’m out with friends, or introducing myself to someone new, the topic of conversation winds its way around to autism. Sometimes the person knows someone who has an autistic child/niece/nephew/etc, or maybe they have an autistic child themselves. Since I am the parent of an autistic son they ask me [...]
Tagged acceptance, Asperger's Syndrome, autism, awareness, Life, parentingEvery year when April – otherwise known as Autism Awareness Month – rolls around, I ask myself, “Awareness? Awareness of what exactly?” In the past I have often forgotten my own advice and tried to find a “one-size-fits-all” answer to the question. (My advice: there is no such thing as one-size-fits-all for anything.) Some years [...]
Tagged acceptance, Asperger's Syndrome, autism, awareness, parentingWhen I got to the airport restaurant, there was a short line of people waiting to be seated. Everyone waiting in this line was a party of one. Frustrating, since as I looked around the restaurant there were plenty of empty seats and table space. But not very many empty tables. As you can probably [...]
Tagged alternate reality, apps, Games, mobile, Social MediaYesterday I participated in a Twitter party hosted by @TheOnlineMom * to discuss the questions: How much do we trust our kids online? Can we monitor them closely and build trust? The focus of the discussion was, as the topic questions hint at, how do we keep our kids safe? How do we protect them from all [...]
Tagged 2.0, Balance, learning, Life, parenting, technologyI enjoy reading, so like many people I have set a goal for myself to read at least 50 books a year for the last couple of years. I read 45 last year, you can see my list on GoodReads. As I was getting ready to publicly commit to another year of 50-in-52, though, I [...]
Tagged Books, Creativity, Deliberate Practice, FIRST, learning, reading, reflection, thinking“Do you really think George bothered to ask for f***ing permission?” This was Kevin Spacey’s response to a question from the audience during the Q&A following the St. Louis premiere of George Hickenlooper’s movie “Casino Jack” at the St. Louis Film Festival. This specific question was related to getting legal clearance for the music used [...]
Tagged Books, Creativity, Work as ArtChris Guillebeau‘s new book, The Art of Non-Conformity, is clear, concise, and gets straight to the point. Chris tries to eliminate “busy work” from his life, and he’s done an excellent job of eliminating “busy reading” from this book. This is a book about living the life that you want to live and not the [...]
