Kaylene George is an autistic self-advocate, author, and mother of five, including one autistic child. She realized her own autism as an adult shortly after her son received his initial diagnosis. Suddenly the parts of her that seemed so “weird” to society had an answer. Since then, Kaylene has passionately shared about her experiences with autism from both sides of the great divide between parents and autistic self-advocates on AutisticMama.com.
Today is an exciting day at This Outnumbered Mama! I’m hosting my very first giveaway! I am so thankful to Cullen’s Abc’s for generously offering to give away ten of their preschool Bible studies and one Cross Box, their brand new activity subscription box, to my readers. To enter, leave me a comment at the bottom […]
I believe that homeschooling is an absolute joy and blessing to our family. Mr. C is gifted (in the academic sense of the word not in the every child has different talents sense) and the resources in public schools for gifted kids are limited, especially in the younger grades. A-Man has a variety of special […]
Having a child with special needs is incredibly difficult. Between therapies and diagnoses and insurance battles, being a special needs mom is tough. Something we tend to forget, however, is that being the sibling of a special needs child is also really tough on kids. Mr. C does fabulous with A-Man, and he always has. […]
Baby M is 17 months old [almost a year and a half for you non-moms who don’t count!] and he is still about 95% breastfed. He has a global developmental delay and sensory processing disorder, which makes eating solid foods extremely difficult for him. He eats pureed baby food about once a day, and other than […]
Being a work at home mom is hard. Really, being a mom in general is hard, but working at home has it’s own unique set of challenges. In fact, most of the benefits to being a work at home mom are actually the biggest challenges. You get to stay home with your kids! But that […]
This post is all about one of the biggest debates I’ve seen around homeschooling your kids. Well, except for maybe the whole homeschooling and socializing thing. If you use a box curriculum, or *gasp* workbooks some would argue that you aren’t a “real” homeschooler because you’re just replicating school at home. Then if you’re an unschooler […]
