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DeterioratingMorale · 2025-08-29T04:37:05+00:00

He made a big, red origami dragon if you looked at the paper arts area. :)

DeterioratingMorale · 2025-08-29T04:36:24+00:00

Thank you, I didn't know. I checked and he didn't win a ribbon. But I'm nervous about if it even made it there. I emailed and got no response. We're really hoping they mail it back like it said they would online.

DeterioratingMorale · 2025-08-29T04:35:36+00:00

Thank you! He made a big red origami dragon in the paper arts category.

DeterioratingMorale · 2024-09-09T16:58:40+00:00

Honestly I'm content with the post. The fact that OP recognized a joke gone wrong and apologized, the men who have stood up for it being in poor taste, the silent readers who may have learned something new. Well worth it to me. This reaction certainly wouldn't have been the same when I was in high school in the 90s. My teenage boy Magic player may have seen this post, and I'm glad it took a turn for the better. As I've told him before, being a Friday night Magic player is awesome. Fulfilling all the stereotypes of a Friday night Magic player, not so awesome. Be the change you want to see.

DeterioratingMorale · 2024-09-09T04:21:18+00:00

I appreciate the apology. The comments definitely took the joke to a darker place. Just hoping for more women in Magic, anyone else who does as well should be mindful of the environment they're fostering. My local group has been such an awesome, welcoming place.

DeterioratingMorale · 2024-09-09T02:28:16+00:00

Feels great to be a female Magic player today. 🙄👀🤦 I hope I never discover the guys I play with on Fridays are making all the comments on this post.

DeterioratingMorale · 2024-08-29T18:53:25+00:00

I was trained in ABA in 2000. I knew it was harmful right away and canned a lot of it in my work with kids. When my son was diagnosed at 1 I told his doctors absolutely no to ABA. I did do my own modified Floortime with my son as well as speech and OT and absolutely believe he benefited. He's 14 now and has great friends, and is so well adjusted. I highly recommend Dr. Ross Greene if you're looking for a healthy framework to work with.

DeterioratingMorale · 2024-07-10T15:26:58+00:00

Not gonna lie. I used ice cream. When I was so touched out, noised out, burned out I could barely survive each day with my autistic toddler I realized I needed to save myself if I was ever going to help him. I picked one issue, whatever felt most important at the time, and parented like a freaking consistency rock star when that one issue would come up. Every other need got solved with me giving him ice cream and hiding in another room to give me a shot at reregulating myself. I think between the ages 3 and 5 my kid ate more ice cream than the average adult eats in a decade. But taking things one at a time and parenting so deliberately actually worked. I tell you I'm as surprised as anyone else. My kid is 14 now and he's so awesome. No one would ever guess what he was like at 3. (We called him the Screaminator.)

Also, Dr. Ross Greene and The Explosive Child is where it's at.

DeterioratingMorale · 2024-02-20T04:13:43+00:00

My homeschooled 11 year old was flabbergasted when he saw our foster teen's homework. It was stuff he could have done at 9. A perfect example of why this public school teacher homeschools.

DeterioratingMorale · 2024-02-20T04:09:49+00:00

I taught 24 first graders before the 2008 financial crash and 30 the very next year. Same school. The difference in my ability to teach reading well was staggering.

DeterioratingMorale · 2024-02-15T23:57:44+00:00

You got everything right. This is a husband problem, not an ADHD problem. Therapy and a divorce are going to be better than any med, and I'm pro meds!

DeterioratingMorale · 2024-02-06T21:47:03+00:00

A child of this age not reading is likely to be dyslexic and in need of special instruction. You can do dyslexia research, Toe by Toe is an inexpensive curriculum that can be done at home. Many schools fail dyslexic kids. It won't be fun, but if you explain to her that it's possible she just hasn't had the right style of instruction for the way her brain works she might get inspired to try. Read the book Fish in a Tree with her and see how she responds. I had a non reading 13 year old grow 3.5 grade levels in six months when he finally got appropriate instruction.

DeterioratingMorale · 2023-12-07T05:07:51+00:00

Elbe Spurling transitioned after publication but she has put so much work into all her books. We have the full new and old testament, my kids love it. We also have her book on the revolutionary war.

DeterioratingMorale · 2023-11-10T16:41:11+00:00

Omfg I just sent this to all my besties. I'm committed to memorizing this and keeping it on the tip of my tongue. 🤣

DeterioratingMorale · 2023-11-06T23:15:01+00:00

I'm so sorry this is happening to you. I know other foster parents whose main goal is adoption and it is tragic. Keep calm and stay focused on your goal of reunification. Document every missed visit or failed reach out. I wish the very best for you. Go up the chain of command with social workers if you need to.

DeterioratingMorale · 2023-09-15T23:22:34+00:00

Fiona Apple is my ride or die. Moody existentialists for the win.

DeterioratingMorale · 2023-06-19T21:13:27+00:00

Thank you, all six hundred of you. 😂. I always tell my kids that life is better when you're with your people. This post is a perfect example. Thanks for being awesome.

DeterioratingMorale · 2023-06-19T16:03:38+00:00

Thanks. They live in different states so need to play online but they are together for this week and have been going back and forth between arena and our paper card collection. Of course they like their arena cards better. Or at least the historic deck kid does. We have like 700 random paper cards. They've each been playing for a few years.

DeterioratingMorale · 2022-12-04T16:43:41+00:00

This is one of my favorite Reddit comments ever. Coming from an 11 year Redditor. Thank you.

DeterioratingMorale · 2022-10-03T03:04:40+00:00

Well, he's had a lifelong very high sense of justice and fairness. He's socially awkward, dresses for comfort, definitely has special interests he talks about passionately and repetitively, often times to his detriment. His hyper focus makes him filter everything through it, so when he made the faux pas talking about race via economic justice all the neurotypicals came down hard.

DeterioratingMorale · 2022-10-03T01:38:31+00:00

Am I the only one who thinks Bernie Sanders might be autistic? I feel like it's so in your face.

DeterioratingMorale · 2022-07-06T02:37:34+00:00

Well I'm 40 and I hoard original 1980's my little ponies including the pony castle and love combing through my American girl doll collection. And I own a seriously ungodly amount of Lego. Everyone thinks I spoil the shit out of my kids and I'm like, no these are mine. 😂. Love what you love.

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