Family Learning Solutions Blog - Random Thoughts

Easter Blessings

nospam@example.com (Family Learning Solutions, LLC) — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:58:01 -0500

I am a sucker for holidays. I love them and see them as a milestone to mark time by. I like to remember holidays past, where we were last year, and where I hope we are next year. Easter is yet another one of those markers. Coming this year, right after our spring break, it has been even more reflected on than usual as I had time to actually think and reflect, not always an easy task with a busy schedule!

This year Easter and the Easter season of new beginnings is especially meaningful to me as I look back on where I was a year ago. A year ago, I was in the middle of chemotherapy and facing radiation after that. I was scared, exhausted, sick, bald, aching....you name it. This year as I looked at my children in church yesterday, I was so grateful for just the ordinary things in life. Being healthy, having my family there with me, having a house and a job that is my passion, having made it through last year, and just the boring normalcy of life that has returned.

Never underestimate the value and power of normalcy- routine- stability. We feel that we should buy our children things, take them to neat places, spend lots of money on them- but really what benefits them the most is just being there for them, letting them feel they have something/someone they can count on, knowing they have food, a house, a parent who cares and makes them a priority. I hope I don't forget the lessons I learned this past year, one being just to appreciate each day the things that we most take for granted- the people and daily routines of our lives. Those are truly blessings - use this Easter season to remember to appreciate those things anew!

Happy Easter from FLS to you!

Summer Programs

nospam@example.com (Family Learning Solutions, LLC) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:44:00 -0600

What would you like to see? The time for planning is now. Let me know via email or my Facebook page what you would love to see me offer this summer.

The social skills groups will continue as usual but maybe twice a week?

Or a parents' group or parents' series of talks?

Wanting to get started on an autism remediation program? I am working on offering this as a per session option, instead of a package, and incorporating much of what I have learned from doing Relationship Development Intervention with families, but with some changes as well.

Learning struggles? Look into the cognitive interventions we offer to remediate the underlying processes that cause dyslexia, low test scores, continuous struggles to achieve in school. We've had some remarkable results with clients lately.

Anything else that I am missing and you need? Give me a call or email or post it and I will look into it.

It may only be March, but summer is right around the corner, really!

Things to be thankful for...

nospam@example.com (Family Learning Solutions, LLC) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:55:00 -0600

This Thanksgiving, I am thankful for:

Good health
A loving family
Beautiful, healthy children
An awesome husband who also cooks!
Having a job I love
The wonderful families I get the opportunity to know and share this journey with
The many moments with the children I work with
The many laughs they give me
Their beautiful unique perspective on life
The lessons I learn from the parents I work with on parental love and sacrifice
Shelby, my assistant
Relationship Development Intervention and the amazing results I've been a witness to
My little office and corner of the world
My upcoming trip
The amazing journey of Family Learning Solutions
The opportunity to do this job every day
The beauty of laughter
The healing of tears
The lessons of love
The silver lining in the crosses we are given to bear
Having energy and feeling good
HAIR on my head!!! (Some of you can appreciate that more than others)
The friends that support me and nourish me and make me laugh

I hope each of you today can find and recognize the many things we have to be grateful for, despite the clouds in our lives! Have a blessed Thanksgiving!!!!

Welcome to the Blog!

nospam@example.com (Family Learning Solutions, LLC) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:58:28 -0500

This is a new undertaking for me here but we will give it a shot. Use this as a forum to discuss concerns, ask questions, and share resources. I hope this will become a valuable resource to my families and to those families I have not met yet. Drop me a line and let me know what you would like to see on here!

Happy Fall!