One of the sad facts of lockdown has been Tad burning out on the things he usually loves to do.  It has been very hard to motivate him to draw, or paint, or anything. But he did manage to make this cartoon for English class. The next assignment will be to build on this plot, […]

After months of working with Rerun on his assignments, I have learned how he verbally stalls to give cover for himself (thanks, ADHD) – he is constantly rephrasing the last thing you just asked him.  All.  The.  Time. Today, working with his paraeducator on a writing assignment… Her: “Rerun, you have to say this in […]

The kids know the rules.  Even with “online school,” the house rule of “no console-style video games” still applies.  The rule USED to be “no Xbox at all except on weekends” but that got amended to let the kids use the Kinect on rainy days when they can’t play outside. So Rerun built his own […]

I warned the kids.  We had to cram all of Monday’s meetings into Tuesday, but we still have all the Tuesday meetings.  It made for a very very VERY full day. But there were two hilarious moments during the morning Zoom meetings that definitely lightened my mood. The first one was from Rerun’s 4th grade […]