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Our Families 2012 Vision Board

January 01, 2012   Darlene Wierski-Devoe   No comments

Over at “Our Journey Thru Autism” there was a post the other day about making a “Vision Board”. Do you make resolutions? Are your kids old enough? I personally don’t like calling them resolutions because I find the term not very optimist; instead we call them “Goals”. So when I saw the post I thought it would be a great way to ring in the new year and put an optimist perspective into 2012. The kids and I grabbed a big piece of board, pulled out the markers, felt stickers, glue sticks, old magazines and proceeded to figure out what we want to achieve both personally and as a family. We took everybody’s height measurement and the kids decided to do a little stick figure for each of us. We discovered that I am 5’3 1/2″ and my little boy is not so little any more he’s already 5′ 1″. So, for this year we deemed the year, “The Year of Magic” and I believe it will be magical. So here’s a sneak peak of what our board looked like and thank you so much to “Our Journey Thru Autism” for posting such a great activity for the whole family.
Here’s a little description of what a “Vision Board” is and ideas to get you started. If you do engage in this wonderful family activity please feel free to share pictures with us. What a great memory for 2012.

Vision Board for 2012

From “Our Journey Thru Autism” by Robin V Schwoyer
The kids are off. A new year is upon us. What to do now that the presents are all opened? How about making a Vision Board with your kids? A vision board is a collage of pictures, words, affirmations, goals and anything you would like to achieve or receive.

Better than the Breakable Resolution
We hear a lot about New Year Resolutions…and much about people not keeping them. What we have found fun to do is to create Vision Boards, or sometimes we call them Dream Boards. These creative projects are more useful than resolutions, simply because they tap into deeper parts of your self as you ponder and create. It’s a whole brain activity which is also multi-sensory, versus a left brained check list of to-do’s and not to-do’s.

A “Whole Family” Activity
You can make Vision Boards with the whole family. The board becomes a positive reminder of things like:
What do I want to learn this year?
What makes me smile?
What is a “crazy” fun thing I would like to do?
What can I do to make someone else happy?
How would I like to spend time with family and friends?
What are good values?
What do I love about nature?
How can I stay peaceful?
What are healthy things I can do?
What goals do I have for 2012?

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Our Families 2012 Vision Board

January 01, 2012   Darlene Wierski-Devoe   5 Comments

Over at “Our Journey Thru Autism” there was a post the other day about making a “Vision Board”. Do you make resolutions? Are your kids old enough? I personally don’t like calling them resolutions because I find the term not very optimist; instead we call them “Goals”. So when I saw the post I thought it would be a great way to ring in the new year and put an optimist perspective into 2012. The kids and I grabbed a big piece of board, pulled out the markers, felt stickers, glue sticks, old magazines and proceeded to figure out what we want to achieve both personally and as a family. We took everybody’s height measurement and the kids decided to do a little stick figure for each of us. We discovered that I am 5’3 1/2″ and my little boy is not so little any more he’s already 5′ 1″. So, for this year we deemed the year, “The Year of Magic” and I believe it will be magical. So here’s a sneak peak of what our board looked like and thank you so much to “Our Journey Thru Autism” for posting such a great activity for the whole family.
Here’s a little description of what a “Vision Board” is and ideas to get you started. If you do engage in this wonderful family activity please feel free to share pictures with us. What a great memory for 2012.

Vision Board for 2012

From “Our Journey Thru Autism” by Robin V Schwoyer
The kids are off. A new year is upon us. What to do now that the presents are all opened? How about making a Vision Board with your kids? A vision board is a collage of pictures, words, affirmations, goals and anything you would like to achieve or receive.

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Even if it is a little thing, do something for those who have need of help…

December 16, 2011   Darlene Wierski-Devoe   2 Comments

As you may have heard over the last 6 months I have been involved with a great group of people over at S-O-S Research thanks to a fantastic lady named, “Danette Schott”. Danette has put a tremendous amount of time and effort into making her site a place for parents to go to when they feel they need to connect. If you haven’t already gone to the site I urge you to check it out. You can tell immediately just how much of her soul she’s put into all the information there. I feel honoured to be a part of her monthly posts as well as being on her team.

Unfortunately, good things do happen to great people and since Thanksgiving Danette has been battling a terrible family crisis. Please read the post written by “Tiffani Lawton” from “OUR Journey thru Autism” and remember this is the time of giving and helping. Danette gives so much it’s now time to give back to her.

Even if it is a little thing, do something for those who have need of help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. – Dr. Albert Schweitzer

Sometimes life has a way of punching you in the gut and knocking the wind right out of you. You think you have lived through some challenging issues until, bam, out of the blue, one of your worst parental nightmares sends you breathlessly into a tail spin. All you can do is live one hour at a time, one minute at a time as you wipe the continuous stream of tears and attempt with little bit of emotional energy you have left to wade through the process to get back to a new sense of normal.

Danette Schott, publisher of S-O-S Research is living in that very tail spin and has been since two days after Thanksgiving when life gave her a serious punch in the gut. She has been in the midst of a family crisis leaving her living minute by minute, attempting to navigate unchartered waters, trying desperately to achieve a new sense of normal for her family.

Please read the full article at “OUR Journey Thru Autism” and if you can even a small donation will help.

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Even if it is a little thing, do something for those who have need of help…

December 16, 2011   Darlene Wierski-Devoe   No comments

As you may have heard over the last 6 months I have been involved with a great group of people over at S-O-S Research thanks to a fantastic lady named, “Danette Schott”. Danette has put a tremendous amount of time and effort into making her site a place for parents to go to when they feel they need to connect. If you haven’t already gone to the site I urge you to check it out. You can tell immediately just how much of her soul she’s put into all the information there. I feel honoured to be a part of her monthly posts as well as being on her team.

Unfortunately, good things do happen to great people and since Thanksgiving Danette has been battling a terrible family crisis. Please read the post written by “Tiffani Lawton” from “OUR Journey thru Autism” and remember this is the time of giving and helping. Danette gives so much it’s now time to give back to her.

Even if it is a little thing, do something for those who have need of help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. – Dr. Albert Schweitzer

Sometimes life has a way of punching you in the gut and knocking the wind right out of you. You think you have lived through some challenging issues until, bam, out of the blue, one of your worst parental nightmares sends you breathlessly into a tail spin. All you can do is live one hour at a time, one minute at a time as you wipe the continuous stream of tears and attempt with little bit of emotional energy you have left to wade through the process to get back to a new sense of normal.

Danette Schott, publisher of S-O-S Research is living in that very tail spin and has been since two days after Thanksgiving when life gave her a serious punch in the gut. She has been in the midst of a family crisis leaving her living minute by minute, attempting to navigate unchartered waters, trying desperately to achieve a new sense of normal for her family.

Please read the full article at “OUR Journey Thru Autism” and if you can even a small donation will help.

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Halloween: A Spooky Time for the Sensory Challenged

October 14, 2011   Darlene Wierski-Devoe   No comments

For some kids, including mine Halloween isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. The over stimulation of all the costumes, the idea that you get dressed up and EVERYONE is looking at you is horrific and the candy isn’t even a bonus because my daughter has so many food allergies that 90% of her goody bag is a no go; that’s if she gets out the door to begin with. So Halloween traditions are a little different around here, starting right from the pumpkin carving (of which she doesn’t even do that because her sensitivity to pumpkins makes her hands feel funny when she touches it).

This morning I came across a post about Halloween on one of the S-0-S Team members Tiffani Lawton’s blog “Our Journey Thru Autism” which is a great wealth of information. She discusses what a spooky time of year this can be for those with sensory issues. Here’s a sneak peak of her great article:

by Barbara Gini

Fall has always been my favorite time of year. Cooler temperatures bring many opportunities for family and social activities: apple and pumpkin picking, fall festivals, hiking, raking leaves, outdoor picnics, 3 birthdays and of course, Halloween.

While most children (and some adults) love the idea of dressing up in costumes and going door to door with friends for candy, some children with sensory processing disorders, autism and other challenges do not. For them it can be more than spooky.

It is estimated that 1 in 20 children (5% to 15% ) in the US are affected by sensory processing disorders whether in the interpretation or response to visual, auditory, olfactory or tactile stimuli, in their perception of position or movement or any combination of these.

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