Maple Syrup Parenting

Wrote this as a post in the Triangle SPD Support Group fb page a few years back.  Since I just referenced in the last post about camp, thought I'd better paste it here, too.

In the midst of what sometimes seems like a chronic battle over how to appropriately parent our kiddos with my husband last night, I said to him, "I go to sleep and I get up and do it again, hopefully a little better. If I suck at it, I just keep trying and moving forward day by day, inch by inch." Raising kids is a marathon and raising special kids is like a marathon with the kids on piggy-back on maple syrup -sticky and slippery at the same time. We fall and we get back up. Some days we're running in place and other days we're sliding forward so fast, we have to adjust. Keep at it; you're doing a great job!*