Behavior Challenges

God’s Hidden Angels at Work (Day 174 of 365)

May 13 in Autism, Behavior Challenges, Daily Skills, Disabilities, Family, Love, Miscellaneous, Special Education, Speech Therapy, Teaching by Eden Little | No Comments

Thursday, May 13th 2010

As a Special Education Teacher who is currently teaching children from 3-6 with Autism it is always a blessing and so rewarding when I see the little accomplishments in my students. I have a unique position with the school district that allows me to travel to 3 different Early Childhood Autism Programs daily and teach the children in each class for a specific amount of time. Today, I arrived at one of the schools and greeted my students outside. One of my students spotted me and ran across the playground to greet me. Now, let me just tell you a a brief history about him. When I began working with him roughly 8 months ago, he was non-verbal, wouldn’t maintain eye contact, would show little to no emotions, and had a difficult time following much of any directions. Over the past 8 months he has grown to enjoy the time I teach him and gets excited when I arrive in his class. His excitement is shown by the compliance he shows when I give him a direction.

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A Little Somethin’ Somethin’ (Day 159 of 365)

April 27 in Behavior Challenges, Cerebral Palsy, Family, Love, Miscellaneous, Parenting, Single Parent, Teaching by Eden Little | No Comments

Tuesday, April 27th 2010

The weather was amazing here in Las Vegas yesterday.The temperature fell in the 80′s most of the day. It was absolutely beautiful! Today, not so lovely. It is extremely windy and has dropped to the 60′s. How can I be consistent with my kiddo’s when the weather has a difficult time learning consistency? It seems as if I always have to remind my kiddos about the weather changing. Even Taylor, my 17 year old doesn’t seem to get it sometimes. She wants to wear a knee high skirt when it’s 45 degrees outside, and as Erin & Jorden were waiting for the bus yesterday morning I peaked outside and saw them both in sweat jackets with long sleeve shirts and one of them was wearing shorts! It seems like it is such a challenge for them to understand whats appropriate & not appropriate to wear. What the Behaviorist in me wants to do is to just let them go to school that way and let them either freeze their little tail off or feel hotter than fire…However, the Mother in me…just can’t do it! So for now, I say it’s time the weather should make up her mind!

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“Before The Morning” (Day 138 of 365)

April 6 in Behavior Challenges, Miscellaneous by Eden Little | 2 Comments

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

Every morning at approximately 5:15 my cell phone alarm goes off…the snooze button is then hit. At 5:20 am my cell phone alarm goes off again….snooze button hit again. At 5:25, cell phone…then snooze. This cycle goes on until 5:35 am when my actual alarm clock goes off. I get my bootie out of bed and head to Taylor’s room to wake Ms. T up…with the usual ,”Good Morning, time to wake”, and I usually hear the following in return,”I don’t feel good..(the body part that hurts usually changes from day to day), “I can’t go to school”, “I’m tired”. Yesterday, her finger hurt, today she said she was sick. Usually, I am able to get Taylor motivated after 5 minutes of her sale pitch of why she should stay home during that day…but today was not one of those days. Nothing worked. The bus came and went without Taylor on it. It was a rough morning. I was so angry with her. I’m not proud to admit this but thoughts crossed my mind like “Why does it always have to be so difficult just to wake up?”, “Why can’t we all just wake up happy?”, “Most parents have 17 year olds that do it all themselves”, “Is this EVER going to be better?” and with those thoughts came more and more thoughts that didn’t seem to help the moment nor help start mine or Taylor’s day.

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Highs & Lows (Day 126 of 365)

March 25 in Behavior Challenges, Cerebral Palsy, Daily Skills, Disabilities, Family, Miscellaneous, Single Parent by Eden Little | No Comments

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Like we do on many occasions, the kiddos and I decided to share our highs & lows of the day. This time we decided to share it with our blog family. Let me just say that the conversation went a little different than I expected. I ask you to please remember that raising any children…let alone ones with special needs quite often comes with many discussions on manners and what is appropriate versus non-appropriate around others. I promised true authenticity when writing this blog, therefore; I kept the video pretty much as it was, with limited editing. You’ll get what I am referring to when watching the video. Hope you enjoy! Read More

Meet My Taylor LIttle (Day 111 of 365)

March 10 in Behavior Challenges, Central Christian Church, Cerebral Palsy, Christianity, Disabilities, Family, God, Occupational Therapy, Physical therapy, seizures, Special Education, Speech Therapy by Eden Little | No Comments

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

I have had many people ask me about how cerebral palsy has effected each of my children…and I realized that I have not given a background of each of them which includes medical and developmental history so I thought I would start today! Read More

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