Author Archives: carl

again with the electronic gadgets…

David got caught with one of his brother’s DSi’s again.  You would think that he would learn.  But there is a hidden compulsion that drives him to take these things. It is most frustrating that over and over again we tell him he can’t do that, and he does it anyway. “I don’t know how it got in my bed…” he says.   We have tried to reward him on days when he doesn’t take anything, and we have tried to take things away when he gets caught, but nothing works. Now some people are of a mind to say: spank him…Well, I don’t know you, but I think we could spank him until your hand hurt, and it wouldn’t make a bit of difference to him. No, we don’t beat him or anything like that.  That would make no sense.  So he gets what ever taken away, and he

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Nominations currently being accepted for the Glenda Schepp Award

This is for residents in North Dakota. So if you know of a deserving parent or professional nominate them today! I copied this from the pathfinder-nd.org website.         2012 Glenda Schepp Award Monday, January 30 2012 13:32 The Pathfinder Parent Center announces its annual nominations for the Glenda Schepp Awards for Achievement and Dedication. If you know an outstanding parent, teacher, therapist, para-educator, administrator or related services personnel, please consider nominating them for either of these annual awards. The Glenda Schepp award for dedication is awarded to a parent who exemplifies parent involvement. The Glenda Schepp award for achievement is awarded to a professional who has done an outstanding job in supporting students with special needs or facilitating parent involvement. A little bit more about the award can be found at the link embedded in this message as well as a list of past recipients. Nominations must

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Thoughts of a reformed thief

In another life I was a thief.  Yes, I admit it.  I was a thief. Why talk about it?  With all of the stealing that our son David does from family members, it hits home. I now fully understand what I put my family through so many years ago. You see, I used to live by the philosophy that if it wasn’t tied down, locked up, or otherwise secured, it didn’t belong to you anymore.  It belonged to me.  And then… My step-dad, turned me in for theft.  And the life I was leading caught up to me. My probation officer told me I had two paths in life.  Path A was prison.  Path B was change.  I chose Path B.  At some point in the future, I will write about what exactly that meant for my life and future.     Tweet #fighting4answrs