Monthly Archives: January 2012

A True Story of Lunch and Parental Trickery

January 26, 2012

SAM:  What’s for Lunch? ME:  I was planning on leftover lasagna. SAM:  WHAT? NO! I WON’T EAT IT! ME:  Of course not. I meant for me. You can have a sandwich. SAM:  Why not? ME:  Lasagna is grown-up food. It’s awfully filling for such a little guy. SAM:  That’s not true! I ate lasagna the [...]

Books for Sam

January 6, 2012

Yesterday my copy of  The Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism  arrived in the mail.  When I opened the box my four-year-old son Sam asked me what it was about.  When I told him it was about autism, to my surprise, he wanted me to read it to him. When I explained it was a book for [...]