You know a particular product is successful when your child pulls out specific content (both positive and negative) and applies it to every day life. Kibbles Rockin' Clubhouse: Expressing Yourself is a positive example of this. Here are two examples: Mommy is a little frustrated over a situation. Bubs reminds Mommy that it is "time to calm ...
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Candy Cane Poem
If this is your first visit to our blog, welcome! We hope that you will stay awhile and check out the rest of Our Out-of-Sync Life blog, as well as our Preschool Curriculum website - ABCJesusLovesMe.com. Thanks for stoppingby! I fell in love with this poem I found on a coloring sheet that Sweet Pea and Little Man did at ...
Christmas Countdown
Here is the Christmas Countdown that we are doing this year. It can be found at DLTK-Holidays. Use the Christmas tree template to add stickers or add the number ornaments (working backwards starting with #24). In this activity, Bubs and Sweet Pea practiced tracing, cutting, and gluing. They ...
Review & Giveaway: I Can Read Songs
The I Can Read Songs for Reading DVD and Cd's are both suggested in the new book The Autism Sisterhood. I was thrilled when I received the opportunity to review this wonderful product. I can definitely see why Michele Brooke suggested this product in her book. The I Can Read Songs for Reading DVD teaches children to ...
Gift Idea: Charlie Church Mouse & Keys of the Kingdom Computer Games
In August and September I introduced you to four computer games by Inspired Media that I think are tops. My kids continue to beg to play them and even Little Man begs to watch his siblings play with them. These are items that I will be giving for Christmas and ones that you should have on your list too! Read my ...
Practice Makes Perfect?
Little Man struggles to get into his car seat. Oh, it's not because he can't. It is because he gets distracted from all of the buttons, gadgets, insects, items on the floor - basically, you name it - on the way to his seat. (Remember my posts about Spirited Children?") So a few mornings ago, we practiced getting in and ...
Stopping a Catastrophe Before it Starts
The biggest secret for raising a child with Sensory Processing Disorder and some Spirited Children is to stop a catastrophe before it starts. The title makes it sound simple doesn't it? But, I believe this is the best way to help your child succeed. Children with sensory issues typically have random meltdowns or lose control due to over ...
Sin is Not Cute
I looked out my kitchen window the other day to see Little Man doing something that he isn't supposed to do. I stepped outside and told him to come here, which he disobeyed. Daddy took over for me at that point. From the kitchen window again, I saw a crying little 2-year-old trying to reason with his Daddy about why he shouldn't be in trouble. ...
ABCJLM Curriculum Update
If you are following the curriculum by date, this is week 9 - review week - of the ABC Jesus Loves Me curriculum. I wanted to give an update on how it is going for our family. Due to where birthdays fall, we are using the 3 Year Curriculum for both Sweet Pea and Little Man along with the writing of the 4 Year Curriculum. We just finished studying ...
No In Between
With our Spirited Little Man, there is no in between. He is either amazingly angelic or frustratingly tasmanian. I will use potty training as an example. Basically, I can say that Little Man is potty trained. We started a month before his second birthday. I understand that he is a boy and boys ...