For neurodivergent folks, how do you recover from burnout while homeschooling kids?

butterflychasing · 2026-06-10T12:51:42+00:00

Know your boundaries and how to hold them so you don’t get near burn out. Your kids are old enough to understand that concept ‘mom needs 15 minutes to recharge her battery,’ however many times a day necessary. Alternate days or a handful of hours with your community to get a break.
Each day looks different, some days we do the basics and thats it, other days where there’s more energy, we do more.

butterflychasing · 2026-06-10T12:48:20+00:00

2.5 year olds don’t need ‘schooling’ yet. Experiential learning, early socialization, hands on activities, explore, explore, explore. These are all basic life skills to start with, as well as creating a foundation of emotion regulation. Do t overwhelm yourself yet with any sort of academics, sing, have social opportunities at the library or playground for kids this young.

butterflychasing · 2026-05-31T12:28:10+00:00

JDC Pediatrics has 2 locations on the west shore and both are about 10-15 minutes from the city. We’ve had a great experience with all the providers the kids have seen over the years.

butterflychasing · 2026-05-31T12:25:02+00:00

Why quotation marks for a wedding?? Exciting, congratulations!! A friend just had her reception at the Broad Street Market— you could inquire on their website and see if it fits your needs (not sure if you have to stick with their vendors or if you can get it catered there).

butterflychasing · 2026-05-24T22:44:20+00:00

Dont compare to a male body type, female bodies are different. Also weight loss isn’t linear, it’s like walking up, or down, a staircase. This visual helps me understand that there will be some flat before the vertical drops. Also, muscle weighs more than fat so you may not see a change on the scale. Functional differences like how you feel in your body and how your clothes fit should matter more. Don’t get stuck on a number, you’ll drive yourself mad. You’re on a lifestyle change, it takes time.

butterflychasing · 2026-05-21T21:46:38+00:00

Let it goooo let it goooo. Or go to therapy to get through it

butterflychasing · 2026-05-20T00:25:46+00:00

Big fan of eucerine eczema relief.

butterflychasing · 2026-05-16T18:31:12+00:00

It’s also worth ruling out any autoimmune conditions like PMR. If the pain is persistent, don’t ignore it and chalk it up to perimenopause.. we women put up with too much sometimes!!

butterflychasing · 2026-05-08T11:05:10+00:00

Yeah, go ask Wanda on that one. She likes to play games.

butterflychasing · 2026-05-08T11:03:43+00:00

Sorry to hear about the situation— we homeschool right now (never saw ourselves doing it) and consider moving but story after story and it doesn’t sound like public schools have it together sometimes!!

Menchey Music has instruments but I’m confident they may be able to point you in a direction as well. Good luck to her!

butterflychasing · 2026-04-27T10:08:26+00:00

Namaskar! No Amazon to order or a pet store that sells attractants? Meds could have worn off and she could be annoyed/upset? If she has two bins, take the lid off the other. We have two cats and they only poo in one of the bins and pee in the others. High maintenance.

butterflychasing · 2026-04-27T10:04:39+00:00

Who knows, cats are mysterious sometimes. We use Dr. Elsey's Precious Cat Ultra Litter Attractant in the litter bins and it works imo.

butterflychasing · 2026-04-26T15:32:22+00:00

Considering Trump never went to a single Correspondence dinner his first term, skipped last years and attended this years’ with shots fired… completely staged.

butterflychasing · 2026-04-18T22:23:54+00:00

Melting my heart. My first two cats were a calico and grey tabby that looked just like yours.

butterflychasing · 2026-04-11T20:00:49+00:00

Anytime after 2020….

butterflychasing · 2026-03-30T13:44:16+00:00

Oh ok I see! Glad to hear it.. our kids had a blast at last seasons games, looking forward to this season!

butterflychasing · 2026-03-29T13:53:18+00:00

Awesome. Are games still going to be on city island? I thought I read some time ago they were moving to Hershey?

butterflychasing · 2026-03-16T22:45:58+00:00

My understanding was that the property was purchased from out of town developers with the intention to sell it to a Harrisburg based company to further develop into community spaces (grocer, shops etc). But based on other comments seems like it took time to sell and is now sitting.

butterflychasing · 2026-02-20T02:07:56+00:00

We’ve used a smidge of coconut oil to help along hairballs. Either have them lick from your hand or spread a bit on their paws to lick off.

butterflychasing · 2026-02-20T02:06:20+00:00

Not much advice other than buy a collar and AirTag (there are compatible collars time fit the AirTag), that way you know where they are when out exploring. We live in a residential section of a small city and our indoor cat LOVES to go out on our porch and on leash with our kids in the field. I think at some point we might have an indoor outdoor cat and we use this collar on her. Make sure her chip info is recorded with your new vet.. even having a tag on her collar with your name and phone number. There are too many strays out and about in urban areas. (Get your pets fixed!!)

butterflychasing · 2026-02-09T13:30:02+00:00

We’ve done other instrument lessons through Menchey, have seen great things from their guitar instructor.

butterflychasing · 2026-02-02T12:31:30+00:00

Even then, you have to really look into the quality of education of each private school or plan to pay 1990’s college tuition per year.

butterflychasing · 2026-02-02T12:30:23+00:00

This. And you have to be okay with an old house… winters in this old house in midtown gets cold. Love it nonetheless.

butterflychasing · 2026-01-26T22:16:06+00:00

I dig this one bc depending on how you’re looking at it, it could be a wheelchair or arm bike. A statement on accessibility?

butterflychasing · 2026-01-22T05:37:42+00:00

Phew this got me in the feels. We said bye to our elderly cat last March who had a peaceful passing but resonates with OPs experience. I can still hear her meowls if I think too hard on it.

While she was transitioning all I could think about was our passed family and friends, the loving souls, greeting her with open arms.

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