Showing posts with label apple Apps for autism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label apple Apps for autism. Show all posts
Friday, July 15, 2011
Supplements, here we go!
For a month now, I've wanted to start my son on supplements. Well, due to our limited finances that wasn't happening. Prayers being answered, I got a few dollars and could finally drive my butt to the health supply store by my house.......I was overwhelmed to say the least.
When you walk into Total Health, all you see is aisles and aisles and some more aisles of vitamins. I didn't even know there were that many vitamins and supplements in the world. Its a warehouse of vitamins. I walk in and see toothpaste....I could use some of that I think. A nice older woman saw me staring, clutching my daughter and my toothpaste and knew I was lost.
This angel of a woman listened to my story and walked me down an aisle.....aaaahhhhh Omega 3's! Then she walked me over to Vit. C. She said for now, start out with those and see how things go. So here i was holding $60 worth of products and she just looks at me, with my worried confused look. It was like she read my soul and knew I had only $80 in my pocket and still had to go to other stores. The angel woman says, "hun, I'm going to give you 30% off, your new here and I think you deserve it".
There are still good people in this world. Beautiful, wonderful, good people. Thank you for today Lord, thank you!
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Thank you Steve Jobs
I'm 100% sure that if there was no such thing as an iPad, I would never be able to attend a social function with myson with out crying.
Once upon a time in the land of Me before kids, I swore my child would NEVER play video games. My children would never be the zombies sitting at the table at a restaurant ignoring the waitress because they were to engrossed in their games. Ahhhh, that person we all were before we had children!
I had always struggled bringing LP out. No amount of coloring, trains or food could keep him sitting still or quiet. It was because of this that I became very secluded from the rest of the world. I spent most of my time in my house away from other people because it was the only place I could get my son to behave.
The day I it was suggested that I buy an IPad I almost fell off my chair. These people were crazy I thought, I'm going to get my kid an iPad as I sit here broke living in a tiny apartment living pay check to paycheck, eating Ramen noodles??? Like a small miracle, my mother decided to buy my son an iPad......and I sobbed, I wept, almost fell to the ground. Let me say, I was still skeptical of this thing, my son was beginning to be verbal so I didn't see how it would help him and not just end up being some expensive as he'll toy.
I can say 2 months later, my son can read because of the iPad. He knows his colors and shapes and grew the patience to listen to a book. He learned to trace letters and what items rhyme. He learned opposites, matching and what doesnt belong. And even though hearing "a doctor uses a stethoscope to hear your heart" scripted over and over again daily can grow annoying, at least he is saying something! The iPad helped my son sit through him great grandmothers funeral and helped say my goodbyes. It makes going to dinner a joy instead of a pain. And lastly it has let me type my blog on it after mY computer broke.....THANK YOU IPAD!!!!
Once upon a time in the land of Me before kids, I swore my child would NEVER play video games. My children would never be the zombies sitting at the table at a restaurant ignoring the waitress because they were to engrossed in their games. Ahhhh, that person we all were before we had children!
I had always struggled bringing LP out. No amount of coloring, trains or food could keep him sitting still or quiet. It was because of this that I became very secluded from the rest of the world. I spent most of my time in my house away from other people because it was the only place I could get my son to behave.
The day I it was suggested that I buy an IPad I almost fell off my chair. These people were crazy I thought, I'm going to get my kid an iPad as I sit here broke living in a tiny apartment living pay check to paycheck, eating Ramen noodles??? Like a small miracle, my mother decided to buy my son an iPad......and I sobbed, I wept, almost fell to the ground. Let me say, I was still skeptical of this thing, my son was beginning to be verbal so I didn't see how it would help him and not just end up being some expensive as he'll toy.
I can say 2 months later, my son can read because of the iPad. He knows his colors and shapes and grew the patience to listen to a book. He learned to trace letters and what items rhyme. He learned opposites, matching and what doesnt belong. And even though hearing "a doctor uses a stethoscope to hear your heart" scripted over and over again daily can grow annoying, at least he is saying something! The iPad helped my son sit through him great grandmothers funeral and helped say my goodbyes. It makes going to dinner a joy instead of a pain. And lastly it has let me type my blog on it after mY computer broke.....THANK YOU IPAD!!!!
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