parenting | Lessons from my daughter

Hi Everyone.
Patty in one of my Facebook group is looking for some help on a project She is working on and I told her I would try and find her some parents who could be interested in contributing to her project!

Her project looks at how us awesome parents of special kids lives our very full lives, and she wants to look at it from a global perspective, to see what things we all have in common.

Message from Patty:

I want to interview Moms or Dads who live somewhere other than the US, who are doing this job of raising special kids and families. But I am stuck and do not know where to start looking for parents like us who live in Africa, Ireland, Italy, Australia, England, Canada, Mexico, etc.

Does anyone have any ideas for me or leads I can follow up on with my interview questions?? Or could I possibly interview any of you who live in other countries? It is not a very lengthy set of questions, and I would very much appreciate any help from the community. I am going to ask, also, on all of the special needs groups I am part of. But any ideas or leads are welcome ! Thanks All – Any other countries are great for my project

I’ve told her that I would be happy to provide her with a Canadian perspective and would reach out to my readers in various group to see if wean get her what she needs.

Parenting outside the lines is Patty’s Facebook page

And her website is: Parenting outside the lines

If you would like her email, please leave me a comment and I will put you in contact!

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Thank you!

Earlier this week, I received this from Emily

I read Emily’s text once and knew exactly what happened.

She plugged her Sony speaker in the kitchen and Jake tore it apart.

I looked at how she quantified her emotions by adding “so” in front of upset and I truly appreciated how she added a picture when she didn’t know how to spell “plug for my speaker”.

She’s resourceful!

My girl texted me a nearly perfect sentence with a picture to complement it.

I am so proud of her.

Following the reception of the text, I called her.

Hi baby

Hi mom, I’m so upset!

I know, what happened?

It’s ruined! Jake eat it.

Yeah, I saw that. Did you yell at Jake?

I wanted to but no.

Did you hit him?

I wanted to but I don’t do that.

Good! You know that yelling or hitting won’t fix it right and Jake is a big dog so I’m glad you didn’t do anything. Did you tell dad?

No, he’s working.

Good!

Did you learn something?

….

Em, did you learn something?

…

How about you don’t plug things over the dog’s pillow?

Yeah.

Ok, we will buy you another plug. Just move your speaker somewhere safe for now.

Ok.

Love you.

Love you too.

I smiles through this whole conversation. So pleased with the young lady I am raising.

Following this conversation, I forwarded all the info to hubby who works from home and was in the house when this happened.

I needed him to know so he would continue with the same attitude I showed and not over react when he came upstairs for his break.

I was so proud of Emily and not just for her awesome text but mostly for not over reacting, not creating a situation where our 85 lbs dog could have over powered her and for not bothering her father with this.

What a change we’ve seen in the last couple of years.

Emily is maturing and tutoring is paying off, she’s reading and writing more.

I can only imagine that this is how the dogs looked like after this adventure.

PS. I know I’ve been MIA lately! We were traveling in Alberta and British Columbia (Canadian Rockies and West coast). I will tell you about our trip soon but I strongly suggest you start following Lessons from my daughter on Facebook in order to see more pictures as I can’t possibly put them all here 🙂