Thanks for your prayers. Today, the tics are not as bad. The tics are still there, and Silas is still behaving wildly and extremely impulsively, but it’s better than yesterday.
It’s the impulse-control issues that are so difficult for me to handle. When a child is behaving erratically and cannot seem to exercise self-control, even [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 27, 2008
Some Better
June 26, 2008
Tics Are “Weird”
As most of you know, our 8-year-old daughter, Rachel, has Tourette Syndrome. She was diagnosed when she was 5. Her tics are really quite mild, and she has handled the whole situation wonderfully. More than a year ago, our now-5-year-old, Silas, also began showing signs of TS. He started with some mild facial scrunching and [...]
June 17, 2008
“She can have her own room”
You know, when you’ve never had your own bedroom, I guess the thought of one day not having to share a room with someone else becomes a really, really big deal. Some of my children dream of the day when they can grow up and have their own space and some real privacy. (In the [...]
June 16, 2008
Another Great Movie
How did I miss this movie when it was released in September of 2006? Sunday night our family watched the animated film Everyone’s Hero. What an appropriate movie for Father’s Day!
Set in the early 1930’s, this movie is about a ten year old boy named Yankee Irving. A huge baseball fan, Yankee can’t seem [...]
June 15, 2008
Performance-Based Parenting
Just in case anyone else needs this reminder right now too. . .
This morning, in his Father’s Day message, our pastor mentioned that our parenting should not be about performance. We shouldn’t discipline to our children’s performance; we should aim for their hearts.
Now, I know this. I really do. But sometimes I forget. The [...]
June 13, 2008
Rent This Movie
We rented the movie Bella and watched it tonight. What a refreshing film!
Some film-makers decided they couldn’t make movies that went against everything they believe in. They didn’t want to contribute more violence, more negative stereotype, more gratuitous sexual scenes, and more demoralizing and degrading movies. They wanted to create films that uplift and honor [...]
June 13, 2008
Crazy Things Kids Do
In light of my recent BB and TUMS stories, I’ve been thinking about all the crazy things my children have done.
First, I defensively feel the need to tell you that I do not leave my children alone and unsupervised for long periods of time. However, there have been times throughout the years when I have [...]
