Praying for Parker

Crossing Midline

Crossing midline is one of the first skills Parker’s Early Intervention team worked with him on. For those of you who aren’t family with the term crossing midline, think of it as if there were a line running down the center of your body from...

Published Wed, Mar 27 2013 7:18 PM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: Special Needs Homeschooling, down syndrome, Life With Special Needs, occupational therapy, Meeting a kid's sensory needs., right hand dependence, crossing midline, cross lateral development, brain gym

Happy Father’s Day! Parker’s Dad Rocks!

Reed hates to have pictures posted of him. But how can Parker wish his Dad a Happy Father’s Day and tell the world how much he rocks without posting a few pictures of his Dad? Noticed how I wrote Parker posting pictures of his Dad. heh. Hopefully...

Published Sun, Jun 16 2013 2:40 PM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: Life With Special Needs, Family and Friends, AmTryke, Father's Day

The All Done Box

Parker has a bad habit of throwing things. Finished playing with a toy? Huck it. Done with that crayon. Huck it. Want Mom’s attention? Pick up something and huck it. Our solution to my kid’s budding career as a baseball pitcher? The All Done...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2013 10:31 AM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: Special Needs Homeschooling, Life With Special Needs, Meeting a kid's sensory needs., All Done Box, SID, sensory issues

Teaching your child with special needs how to write.

I wanted to share a great tip for teaching your child with special needs how to write. When you break down the actual action of writing, you break it down into vertical lines, horizontal lines, and circles. Parker is perfectly capable of making lines...

Published Wed, May 29 2013 4:48 PM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: Special Needs Homeschooling, Meeting a kid's sensory needs., pre-writing skill activities, fine motor activities, how to teach a child to write, uses for Velcro

A New Year at Praying for Parker!

We are looking at a New Year here at Praying for Parker with lots of thoughtful planning and excitement for a new start. My biggest goal for this New Year at Praying for Parker is to offer up posts that include inspiration, great ideas and a sense...

Published Wed, Dec 26 2012 7:00 PM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: Stuff We LOVE!, down syndrome, Special Needs, blenderized diet, homeschooling kids with special needs

Simply Preparing: Garden Seed Sources

Parker and I are over at Simply Preparing today sharing our favorite garden seed sources. Simply Preparing is a survival blog for disaster and emergency preparedness that I know all of you will really like. Now is the time to start planning this year’s...

Published Thu, Dec 27 2012 6:29 PM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: gardening, Victory Garden, urban gardening, open pollinated seeds, homesteading, heirloom seeds, organic seeds

Landfill Harmonic

I was reminded of the power of the human spirit as I watched The Landfill Harmonic Movie and the creation of instruments from garbage for the Recycled Orchestra. But the statement that stood out to me the most was this: People realize we shouldn’t...

Published Thu, Dec 06 2012 9:52 PM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: Advocacy, Life With Special Needs

Valentine Blessings

The owner of the littlest Hodson heart is starting to feel better. Not great, but better. I’ll take it. Happy Valentine’s blessings to us. There will be a party at school and I’m in charge of the treats, but I don’t think I’ll...

Published Wed, Feb 13 2013 6:46 PM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: Advocacy, Sensory Tubs, Politics of Special Needs, Family and Friends, Valenines Day, montessori inspired Valentine Activities

Montessori inspired activities to do at home

I love creating Montessori inspired activities to do at home. I try to keep my eyes open through out the year and think outside the box for things I can use to help Parker make his way up the Sensory Pyramid. Some of my recent Walmart purchases include...

Published Mon, Mar 11 2013 7:28 PM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: Special Needs Homeschooling, home school, Life With Special Needs, Montessori inspired activities, Meeting a kid's sensory needs., special needs blogger

Sensory Schedule

What I really wanted to title this post was ‘there goes the rest of my life’, but that title doesn’t work well in the world of SEO, so instead my title is sensory schedule. Consider that my genuflecting to the powers of search engine...

Published Sun, Mar 17 2013 7:43 PM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: Holding On Tight To My Faith, Life With Special Needs, Meeting a kid's sensory needs., weighted lap pads, sensory diet, occupational therapy activities at home, stimming, joint compressions, big girl panties, weighted blankes, Sargent Steam, proprioception activities, vestibular activities, tactile activities, sensory schedule, abilitations, hand hugs

Coloring Lima Beans for Learning and Crafts

Usually, when people think of sensory boxes they think of colored rice. Colored rice, lentils, birdseed are all items that work great in sensory boxes. Today I’m going to show how to color lima beans for learning and crafts and sensory boxes too...

Published Thu, Mar 07 2013 8:19 PM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: Special Needs Homeschooling, Sensory Tubs, Math Activities, Art Activities, Meeting a kid's sensory needs., Montessori Learning Activities, crafts for kids, How to color lima beans, Transferring Activities, sensory bin activities, learning and craft activities

Making my list…..but can’t afford to check it twice.

I remember feeling a little bummed when my older kids were younger and wanted things that were simply beyond our budget. I’d eventually get over it, and more times than not, they’d eventually forget that they even wanted it. It’s...

Published Wed, Nov 28 2012 8:19 PM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: The HIGH Cost of Health Care, Shiley trachs, Portex Thermavents, mini one button

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas from our house to yours! Read More...

Published Mon, Dec 24 2012 9:29 PM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: Family and Friends, Merry Christmas

Homeschooling my child with special needs.

We took Parker to school last week. Not every day and not all day long. Nope. A couple of days and a couple of hours per day. By Friday Parker was sick. By Sunday he was sicker. When my medically fragile kid gets sick during the healthy season, I know...

Published Tue, May 28 2013 4:59 PM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: Special Needs Homeschooling, Advocacy, Special Needs, homeschooling, home school, Life With Special Needs, opportunity knocks

An authentically inspired life.

It is important me that I create an authentically inspired life in a world where she who dies with the most toys wins. I know I can’t do it all and need to seek contentment and find a more simple way of living that my meets my definition of beautiful...

Published Tue, May 14 2013 9:24 AM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: Special Needs, frugal living, Life With Special Needs, Inspired living

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