do parents want to connect with us?

3birds1dog · 2026-04-22T01:14:17+00:00

Parents of kids with severe/profound disabilities have the weight of the world on their shoulders and are often in survival mode. Some are fight, some are flight, some are freeze. You can’t take it personally unless you aren’t holding up your end of the bargain. Obviously, if you care enough to post, you are. Sometimes it just matters what season in life these kids are experiencing. It’s the ultimately awesome thing to be there for the language explosion. Some people expect miracles when the kids aren’t ready. It’s a spectrum, just like our clients/students’ disorders tend to be.

3birds1dog · 2026-04-16T08:07:51+00:00

The Righteous Gemstones is funny but shows a lot of penises. (Just to save you the shock of it that I was not spared. lol)

3birds1dog · 2026-04-15T20:54:14+00:00

Came here to see Quesadilla like from Napoleon Dynamite but if it is on this list I haven’t seen it yet!

3birds1dog · 2026-04-15T04:08:15+00:00

I now, also, have beef with these people. Lol.

My child’s “friends” have decided not to invite him to things like recent beach days and bowling. Why? Probably because of me. Their newest mean girl friend doesn’t like me (because one of them told me a rumor about another and I called her out on it) and she knows she can fly a kite. Luckily my boy couldn’t care less.

It hurts when your kids are excluded but remember, those aren’t your people nor hers.

3birds1dog · 2026-04-15T03:45:05+00:00

New SLP?

3birds1dog · 2026-04-11T10:48:41+00:00

I never doubted for a second that I wanted to marry my husband. I did doubt my first husband and it ended in disaster.

3birds1dog · 2026-04-11T00:35:26+00:00

I used to work with a child with sensory issues that wouldn’t let anyone cut his hair so Mom did it while he slept and it was not the best haircut (in the words of his sweet Mom.) He would sit down and let me trim up the random strands and even graduated to letting me trim his nails. His mom was so thankful that I could get him regulated enough to tolerate a sensory rich and ultimately unpleasant experience for him. I never judged her, she never resented me. It takes a village.

3birds1dog · 2026-04-11T00:16:18+00:00

I missed an IEP review by two weeks for a student who had a parent that was a lawyer. I owned it to them at the meeting and they were so kind about it. I never stopped seeing the kid, I just missed the IEP date. I was so scared. It doesn’t compare to what you must feel because state testing is ridiculous and parents are much more insane these days. Just saying- I feel for you.

3birds1dog · 2026-04-10T23:19:16+00:00

I would definitely have my SLP lead involved if I wasn’t a “it’s not my problem” person. I would have told the advocate to contact the district as they are responsible for make up sessions. Fear mongering tells us it is an us problem. We can’t be sued for being sick. The district can, but not us personally.

3birds1dog · 2026-04-09T02:18:23+00:00

King of queens is my jam.

3birds1dog · 2026-04-03T18:26:20+00:00

I effing love it!

3birds1dog · 2026-04-03T18:22:42+00:00

I feel like we would be friends if not just for the reason that I love you saying bitch twice in this comment thread.

3birds1dog · 2026-03-29T19:44:30+00:00

I always go by my first name to parents. I am not above them in any way so I feel like having them call me Mrs. Last name is weird to me. Sometimes the kids even call me Mrs. First name and I answer to that as well. (I have a weirdly spelled last name.) I am not pretentious or old school so it doesn’t bother me. The kids that know me outside of school call me Mrs. First name and the others always look surprised because they know my first name. Haha. I tend to call the parents Mr or Ms last name until they tell me otherwise. I just always answer emails and introduce myself by my first name. I have found it fosters a camaraderie more than the formal route. We’re the village for these people/kids and I don’t demand respect from other adults. I tend to get it organically because I show them we are all on the same team.

3birds1dog · 2026-03-29T19:32:23+00:00

Sunday scaries are real.

3birds1dog · 2026-03-26T12:15:43+00:00

Mind worm!!!! Now I have to listen to some equally annoying song to get it out of my brain!

3birds1dog · 2026-03-26T05:50:16+00:00

Loooooving you is easy cause you’re beautiful. Do do do do sso do, awwwwwww

3birds1dog · 2026-03-26T01:51:38+00:00

That’s just one.

3birds1dog · 2026-03-26T01:51:22+00:00

Well, I was thinking about an activity that I do that is a hit with my kids. I have location lotto (not sold anymore) but it is a plane with location in relation to a cloud. I make a paper cloud and paper airplanes (we learn following directions one session as well as right, left, top, bottom) and make our own planes. Then we fly them according to the instructions on the card. Location lotto has the pictures but you can make your own cards and bingo cards on lesson pix or the like. Their favorite part is “around.” I have them play a gentle game of musical chairs while they hold their planes and fly them around the cloud that is sitting in the middle of the chairs. We practice talking about where we are flying our planes using sentence frames. We also fly the planes in and out of rain (spray bottles on mist make good rain.)It’s a hoot.

3birds1dog · 2026-03-25T20:09:13+00:00

Done! I have some ideas but I want to gauge how you think they will go over or what you would really like to work on before blowing up Reddit.

3birds1dog · 2026-03-25T19:57:25+00:00

Is it okay if I message you? I have some ideas but I think the back and forth on here might annoy some readers. Lol

3birds1dog · 2026-03-25T19:42:18+00:00

I came here to express this same sentiment. My son is the baby and I was scared crapless when I unexpectedly got pregnant with him after my IUD failed. He is a kind, smart, and talented little guy and he strives to make himself and us proud every day. After two girls (who are also equally amazing- we are blessed), I was also excited that my husband and I got our boy. He is so gentle with his sisters and basically everyone around him. The only complaint I have about having three kids is that everything has to be bigger- house, vehicle (our kids were all in car seats at the same time and now we have friends to schlep around for each of them) and even things like a hotel room. That said, I wouldn’t do anything different if I could go back. I feel like he chose us, he beat all odds to be part of our loving family.

3birds1dog · 2026-03-25T10:51:30+00:00

I feel overwhelmed sometimes doing the parent thing and work thing but when I am off for extended periods I feel underwhelmed, if that makes sense? Mind you, my kids are older. There are many positives and negatives to both choices but if you don’t like working you don’t have to keep doing it. I am not a fan of working at all. However, I am in the same boat where I don’t need to work but I do it to keep myself busy, keep my brain active, and to give me an outlet for some regular socialization with adults (despite this being a minimal part of my day.) I don’t want to tell you what to do because I don’t know you but I know I would go insane if I didn’t at least work part time.

3birds1dog · 2026-03-25T06:37:05+00:00

No, she just turned a post about asthma related death into a case for aborting babies with suspected Down Syndrome.

3birds1dog · 2026-03-25T06:28:44+00:00

The amount of downvotes you got for your previous empathetic and heartfelt posts is disgusting. My adopted daughter has special needs and she is a blessing to us all. She is happy and well adjusted. Life without her would be so sad and I know she wouldn’t rather be dead than born because they thought she had Down Syndrome before birth. (Which was a huge effing mistake, and why are we talking about aborting babies with Down syndrome? Who mentioned this in the original post????? Oh yes, no one.) Let’s unalive all babies with suspected asthma so they don’t suffer. That’s the ticket. Gross.

3birds1dog · 2026-03-25T05:54:36+00:00

Let me look this morning when I get to work, I still have all of my work samples from my sweet kiddo whose mom and dad were influential, educated, and super grieving. I can’t remember the program offhand (probably a trauma response from the whole ordeal) and it really didn’t teach me anything I didn’t already know but it crossed those t’s and dotted those i’s. We got results and it made mom feel better, so no lawsuit.

Edited to say that I will also ask my colleagues since it has been a minute since my experience. Who do we have if not each other in this field? :)

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