My youngest son graduated from high school this year. I’m going to let that sit for a second, because for a long time I wasn’t sure I’d get to write that sentence. There were years when getting through one week of school felt like climbing a mountain, and getting a dyslexic son through twelve years
If your child is in middle school or high school and you’re lying awake wondering if you missed your window, I want to say this first: it is not too late to help an older child with dyslexia. I’m a mom, not a specialist, so I can only tell you what we lived. But we
If your son is getting defiant, joking his way out of schoolwork, or telling you everything is “stupid,” you may be wondering where this attitude came from. I wondered the same thing for years. We were getting told it’s a ‘boy thing’. Here’s what I learned. In our house, the attitude was never the real
Most people think dyslexia is only about reading. But some of the earliest signs of dyslexia in our house had nothing to do with books. Left and right confusion, shoe tying that never seemed to stick, coordination that was just a little bit off. These were the clues that showed up first, years before reading
If you have ever sat in an IEP meeting and felt like nobody in that room truly understood what was going on with your child, this post is for you. Is dyslexia a learning disability? Yes. Officially it is. But here is what that label does not tell you: dyslexia is a specific kind of
If you are thinking about homeschooling a dyslexic child but are not sure if it is the right move, welp here’s my honest version from a mom who did both and lived with the results of both. (Barely..ha ha) We were not all-in homeschoolers from the start. We did public school. We did homeschool 2
If your child plays sports and keeps going the wrong way, forgetting the play, or getting yelled at for mistakes that do not make sense to anyone watching, this post is for you. My son was in fourth grade when football taught us something school never had. It also gave us one of the best
