by Rick Daynes | Feb 6, 2017 | Parenting |
This is part four of a multi-part series about one father’s account of working with the dysfunctional special education system. (Read Part 1 here, Part 2 here, & Part 3 here. In part two of this series I shared a very private and painful experience when the school...
by Rick Daynes | Jan 30, 2017 | Parenting |
This is part three of a multi-part series about one father’s account of working with the dysfunctional special education system. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here. My wife and I decided to hire a partnership of two advocates after it became apparent the IEP team was...
by Rick Daynes | Jan 25, 2017 | Parenting |
This is part two of a multi-part series about one father’s account of working with the dysfunctional special education system. (Read Part 1 here) In my previous post I claimed my daughter’s future was compromised by the school system’s ambition to keep costs down....
by Rick Daynes | Jan 20, 2017 | Parenting |
I am happy to announce Keep It Together Man’s first guest blog! I have known this Dad/author for as long as I have known Cheerios at the breakfast table. When he told me his story, I asked him to write it up. It is a great example of the battles of parenting in the...
by Rick Daynes | Jan 3, 2017 | Kids, Uncategorized |
by Rick Daynes | Dec 26, 2016 | Parenting, Uncategorized |
Let’s Give it Another GO! It’s the final countdown (BA-NA-NA-NA, BA-NA-NA-NA-NA) -Europe OK! I am totally psyched! This is my year! This is the year I make it all happen! Let’s see… Physical Goals: check Scholastic Goals: check Financial Goals: check Social Goals:...
by Rick Daynes | Dec 19, 2016 | Kids, Uncategorized |
by Rick Daynes | Dec 12, 2016 | Parenting, Uncategorized |
Buddy: Why don’t you just say it? I’m the worst toy maker in the world. I’m a cotton-headed ninny-muggins. Elves: (Gasps) Ming Ming: No, buddy, you’re not a cotton-headed ninny-muggins. We all just have different talents. That’s all....
by Rick Daynes | Dec 5, 2016 | Parenting, Uncategorized |
If I were to drop you in the canyon of the autism spectrum, we would never see you again. The spectrum is so vast it almost seems borderless. And yet a million kids, possibly your own, are navigating that canyon. All of these kids stumble, fall, get lost, rise up, and...
by Rick Daynes | Nov 26, 2016 | Parenting, Uncategorized |
Taken from Chapter 1 of “Keep It Together Man” Beep beep, beep beep, beep beep. Oh please no. It can’t possibly be 3:30 yet. I just went to sleep. My foggy vision checks the alarm clock for the unsightful confirmation of 3:30AM. Muscles ache, bones quake,...
