Happy new year everyone!
I lost count of the number of times I said I am going to do something grand and dramatically fresh with this blog, and that never happens. Indeed it seems like the only time I find for writing is when the daylight bounces off the sparkly white view outside, that I find glee at being in front of a keyboard, and the experience of making it through the year, to have anything worth sharing.
Once the darker days pass and we simply find ourselves at the shorter days, it is a new cycle that begins. Some of us send children off to school, make a major move, or begin making the place we live turn into the homiest of homes for the next few months.
Big Guy is right now 15, and Little Mister is right now 14. They are now the appropriate ages for some out-of-home learning under the guidance of others. As a matter of fact, this is true in many ways because of new structuring of public funding and support for the severely impacted neurodivergent children and youth.
We're exploring both private therapists (speech and language, occupational therapy, some skill building programs) and social education programs (drop-ins, workshops, recreational programs).
At home I have been piecing together some remedial academic work, for both the reasons of individual learning levels, and the time we took and centered on wellness, personal care, executive functioning, and sensory diets, because we couldn't access any activities outside the home, and guess what, many programs we used to rely on when they were younger haven't even gone back to in-person at the time of me writing this!
I'm looking forward to a blend of montessori materials and of intentional guided reading.
Stay tuned!
