Thanks. This really helps me to keep moving forward and I really encourage parents who have children with special needs to do the same.

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I tell my kids about Santa. I feel that I'm not lying to them. Its the same thing about the Easter bunny and the Toothfairy thing. We all know that they don't exsist but the kids have alot to look forward to when we tell them these tales. When they mature they will have alot  of nice memories like we do.

All kids are unpredictable, especially children with autism. Last year my son participated like the others, this year is didn't even want to enter the gymnasium. He is very moody. On the otherhand, my daughter Hope participated very well and her twin sister Yvonne was ill and stayed home.

I have such wonderful news that i would like to share with my friends...My son is nonverbal but lately he is saying a three word sentence.  "I want ...juice", etc... It may not be much for others but my son is seven and this means so much to me.

Did you know that the largest recorded snake is the anaconda which can reach a length of 9 meters?

i have 3 children with autism. I send them to speech, occupational and structured therapy. I do not give any of my children any type of medicines. Like Jake said...there are alot of side effects. If there are tantrums, then there is a reason for them. Frustration for some reason. Try to find out why the child is frustrated and deal with it calmly and patiently!

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Dora the Explorer theme song. My daughter is at home sick and she really loves Dora!

Once upon a time, Santa Clause wandered into my garden and dropped his cookies on blue carpet that my sacks of beads fell onto. I picked pickled parsnips from Papa's popular place, then danced deliriously for my baby panda and he got slept under the Christmas tree.

Whenever reindeer passes through the lovely supermarket OVERFLOWING with  laughter throw tomatoes at grandpa giggling away.

We all stopped when suddenly George shouted, "HO HO HO! Oh, goodness!" Apparently the facetious elves played jolly upon finishing one cookie!

Hurray! Rudolph pranced joyfully while Santa drank eggnog and sang a song loudly while wrapping presents quickly. Everything suddenly vanished into clouds that disappeared rapidly into dust. It wasn't very unusual really, but fortunately Santa Clause had packed sacks of whitening snow but never dare use it again because it melts quickly even in extremely cold so, he could have any thing that he wanted in the bag with red dots and gold ribbon, even

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I am Canadian and I now live in Hamrun, MALTA!

My hour walk every morning!

CARE - DARE - DARK - ARKS - ARMS - ARMY - MARS - BARS - BARE - BARK - BANK - BAND - BANE - SANE - PANE - PINE - FINE - MINE - NINE - DINE - DINT - PINT - HINT - TINT - MINT - MITT -MITS - PITS-PINT

kiwi, mango, papaya, raspberry, pomegranate, starfruit, Watermelon, coconut, apple, Guava, orange, grapes, rumbutan, blueberry, persimmon, rumberrys, blackberry, banana, jackfruit, pear, strawberry, persimmon, sweetsop (also called sugar-apple or atis), gooseberry, bannana, peach, lemon, plum, orange, lychee, cranberry, avocado, tomato, cherry, pineapple, lime, lumicell, apricot, plum, honey dew,cantaloupe, raspberry, mangosteen,chestnut, dates, tangerine, sugarcane, pomegranet

 I bought my children toys this year that encourage symbolic play and fine motoring skills. I also included plenty of books of their favourite tv characters. My husband a new cell phone and I'm still looking for the rest.