Articles Related to Parenting

Parenting an Autistic
Child

Synopsis:  I share my experience in raising a child with Asperger's Syndrome, and the two biggest lessons I have learned from it.  Also discussed are early diagnosis and treatment and dealing with defiance and meltdowns.

Excerpt:  In my observation, it is the home that is the number-one factor in helping the ASD child.  All other therapies are secondary--not optional--secondary, as shorts are secondary to a runner's shoes.  You shouldn't omit the shorts.  Shirt, maybe, but neither shorts nor shoes.

Overstimulation

Synopsis:  I discuss a parent's dilemma between leading an adult life and providing adequate guidance and care for one's child.  How much of what we do is misguided, and how can we know?  A history of hysteria meets the age-old questions of "how much TV?" and "what qualifies as overstimulation?"

Excerpt:  Would you believe that when writing became increasingly available to the masses in early Western history, prominent thinkers railed against it as unhealthy? Socrates railed against the spread of literacy, as he believed it would dwarf the memories of men (the Greek word for read is "anaginosko," literally "to know again," as paper and ink spare the scholar the task of remembering). Indeed, from the dawn of human civilization, bards relayed epic tales, such as Homer's Ilyad, purely from memory.

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