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Wonderful ideas for Christmas! The little birds on the wooden circle is adorable!

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I love all of your post. Im so glad you touch on the fact that not everything is perfect. I love that picture of Darian. He looks so happy.

Yeah man, as an autistic person I fucking LOOVVEE swearing dude. It’s great! It causes such a release in my being because the language holds a power that really resonates with my emotions. Sometimes we need that extra flavor that really FEELS like it nails the strong emotions we feel. We don’t experience emotions on a similar plane of existence as others. If my parent restricted me on swearing around them, I think I wouldn’t feel safe expressing myself around my parents. Not even now. My parents always expressed that it wasn’t something other people liked, but if I’m not harming anybody it doesn’t matter. The lack of a chokehold on me and just letting me swear as long as I wasn’t being hurtful made my relationship with my parents much much healthier, especially as I got older and I could just express my feelings to them without having to walk on eggshells for their weird rules. Strong emotions need strong language, which isn’t very relatable if you’re not an autistic person. Constantly restricting the language utilized without giving them an equally strong and effective set of words or phrases to use will make it so your child starts hiding their genuine responses from you in order to appease you, which is really unhealthy. It’s far from something to illicit a reaction from others, more often than not it’s significant of a strong internal reaction or emotion that they’re expressing to you, so telling them they’re wrong can cause distance between the parent and child. It’s interesting how autistic people use “swears” in a way they’re less “wrong” because they’re “different words”, it just takes higher level of understanding that isn’t just “swear word = bad” which is really cool

Thank you for sharing God bless

The timing of this video is perfect, I needed to hear this! Thank you for the encouragement ❤

Never feel guilty for putting your kids well being first. Family may not "get it" but they should never make you feel guilty. Happy holidays Jamie!

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When hes 18 and suppose to be graduation age are you still going to teach him things like you are. Im working on a plan for mine

Such good advice! Funny timing because I cut my husband's hair this evening and I told him that soon I can charge him since I'm getting pretty good at it! We've been together for 20+ years so I've had lots of practice 😂

You’re fantastic. Praise God. I was born next door to my first best friend who I later found out has autism. I love her!

Very helpful ideas! I also think that telling time is a very important skill! My oldest (15) practices weekly on how to read a clock. She understands passage of time but analog clocks are so tricky for her.

❤Glory be to God, how beautiful you are, can we be friends?❤

Amen!! Thank you do much

I always look forward to your videos and watch them all the way through and save many of them to listen to again. Thank you for sharing truth! I given into fear and anxiety often. But God!

Thank you for making this video. For me, you spoke my thoughts that I struggle to even say because of fear of the future. God reminded me through what He has promised his children. Much needed reminder. Thank you, too, for your prayers.

Ha, I am the fan who always watch your whole video! ❤ another wonderful video, I agree that the fear for the future actually comes from our own limitations of knowing the big picture.

Love you! God is trustworthy! ❤

such a nice video. thank you for making the video

Amen Sister

Your piano analogy is beautiful. Last week my daughter was given a very old tin filled with buttons and various random objects. This was found at an antique shop by a relative who knew she would love it. She carefully sorted and cleaned every object and sorted them by color and shape into a small organizing bin. It was weird, but I felt like the original owner, who probably collected these items over a lifetime, was smiling upon her as each item was treated with care. She showed me each button and trinket as she cleaned and sorted. She has many special needs but she has always found beauty in everything and is so patient. Your old piano reminded me of the tin of buttons :) Both gave me such a lovely feeling in my heart.

I also dislike the word self-care, as it usually implies "spending money on yourself." The metaphor you made of this piano is just beautiful! I am unsure whether things will get easier when we are old ladies, but keeping a positive mindset is not quite easy. How can we assume competence when our loved ones refuse to show evidence of their intelligence and resilience? How can we envision our future when uncertainty is a huge part of it? For me, the first thing I did in the last few years was to unfollow some influencers' doom and gloom narrative nor accept it into my life.

Thank you for this video! My daughter is 6 and I always have this in the back of my mind.

Hi, you certainly are not talking in an echo chamber as I am watching every video of yours! We are struggling a little now as Gaius has been having a low-degree fever for 3-4 weeks sigh so I have been somewhat quiet....Yet, during the process of struggles, he started typing on an iPad, and I now know him better. He writes out how his fever makes him feel miserable, and he feels embarrassed about keeping asking for recess at school (yes, so we stay home now until he feels better) . He also types out fun jokes and birthday wishes for his uncle for the first time. I love how much you can stretch yourself to help our kids, and how positive yet realistic you are. For a parent with a kid who has more needs, it is hard to find a community that feels right. I personally don't like communities filled with complaints and misery shows, and neither do I like communities that promise recoveries and miracles. Thank you so much for building this one for us. I wish we were closer physically, but at least we are close virtually. :)

I have a 15 year old with the same "uuugh" attitude 😂 I love the idea of writing a letter to the author. It might be kind of neat to actually mail the letter and see what happens!

I heard audio books and graphic novels are suppose to be really popular for kids who dont wanna read.

I love that you are showing the real side of homeschooling.😊 We all love books and sometimes we just can't complete something at that moment. I'm glad you're revisiting the South America unit. I love all of your supporting materials. I have added a few to my ever growing list of books to read.

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We do a 4 day school week too! We try to see friends on our day off too :)

You always have great books. I will definitely add Evidence for the Bible to my list. We are trying not consumed this year also.

Thank you for such great ideas. You are always encouraging!

Thank you for sharing how you modify (and create!) curriculum to fit your child, especially at the highschool level. There aren't many resources on this and I search youtube quite frequently for inspiration. It's also good that you have a sleep system figured out, it's difficult having a child who struggles with sleep. Momma needs her sleep too!

Question : do you remember what helped you in the early years like 1 st grade? Like what method of teaching? ❤

Thank you so much for your videos I'm starting homeschool this year with my autistic 11 year old. Can you show how your typical school day looks like or a schedule you follow please ?

Thank you so much! This has helped SO much! Looking forward to more videos

I love how thoughtful all your choices are! So helpful. Thank you.

I really appreciate your videos and your encouraging words. I so agree that we need to rely on God to guide our homeschool.

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Thank you for your encouragement!! Thank you too for sharing your and Darrions' story!

We just made the leap in February of this year for very similar reasons. I’m nervous to start our first full year(4th gr) but also very confident this is what God is calling me to do. Thank you for sharing your story! It’s very encouraging ❤

My spesial needs son was in reguler school before, it's need 1 year to think about homeschooling him, and this year I completely sure that my sons and I can do that, thanks for your inspiration, sorry if my English not good

Hello from Tulsa, Oklahoma (we moved from Kentucky to Oklahoma 9 months ago)! As someone whose kid goes to public school, your videos on homeschooling are still quite beneficial. Not only do we do some academic work at home after school and in the summer, but your mindset has been very insightful. Thank you!

You are right, it is so peaceful. I didn't realize how stressed my children were.

Thank you for posting this. As a mom with a neurospicy kiddo with Autism, I have been struggling with adjusting to what we are doing for school. Last year I used Gather 'Round, I loved it and bought all of the curriculum for this coming year only to find out that it is not working for my kiddo. So then I bought Oak Meadow and was excited to start that again for this year (used it the year before GR), but now that he's moved to a higher "grade" level most of the work is read, read, read and write, write, write. The amount of reading is a stretch, but do able for him, but the writing is well one of our biggest challenges. So many tears and stresses for planning later, I sat and typed in You Tube " help with Autism curriculum" and you showed up first. Your content has really helped me and I even have set and apt for the Son-Rise curriculum at the Autism treatment center of America (that I never knew about until you mentioned it). Thank you!!!!

Best video I've seen!!

Do you have a specific curriculum that you use for Darrion? My son is nonverbal and has autism and getting ready to go into Kindergarten homeschooling. Any recommendations?