{This is a guest post brought to you by one of our favorite bike riders.} I love my bike. It’s a serious problem. As a kid, I lived on my bike. I used to pretend the mailbox was a gas station where you could “purchase” 20 rotations of the pedals to ride around the neighborhood [...]
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Kat from @BeingMama shares with us her “girl with curls” story: Like many curly-haired individuals, I’ve had a love-hate relationship with my hair for as long as I can remember. As a child, people said I looked like Shirley Temple, a comparison I found to be terribly embarrassing. My particular hair has loose curls that [...]
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{The following is a Guest Post. Read this if you are interested in submitting a guest post to WWTK.} Here is how to make your own homemade laundry detergent, if you are so motivated to make your own laundry detergent. Why should you make your own laundry detergent? Well, it is cheaper than store bought [...]
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PART 3 OF A 3 PART SERIES (Guest Post) I will never see these people again Long car rides can be tough for kids in general but can be especially challenging for kids with special needs. They often don’t realize that just because we’ve stopped doesn’t mean we’re there. When we’re traveling long distance in [...]
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PART 2 OF A 3 PART SERIES (Guest Post) Leading up to the trip and Technology: It’s up to you if you want to involve your child in the planning of the vacation. We don’t tell my daughter ahead of time because she doesn’t understand the passage of time and would pester us relentlessly until [...]
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PART 1 OF A 3 PART SERIES (Guest Post) Deciding to take a Trip and Making the Environment familiar: I was recently asked by a friend of a friend for some tips on how to travel with a special needs child. Our daughter is 8 years old and has autism and we’ve traveled extensively with [...]
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Ever hear the one about the introvert that walks into a bar? No one notices, and the introvert is pleased as punch about it. The ‘introvert’ as defined by the personality type of the Myers-Briggs personality type indicator means that introverts derive energy from within. This is what is says on wikipedia: Myers-Briggs literature uses [...]
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If you are visiting OR live in the DC area and want a great outdoor day, consider spending time at East Potomac Park. Located on a 300+ acre peninsula between the Washington Channel and the Potomac River, this park is unexpectedly filled with first rate activities. Beautifully situated across a wide span of the Potomac [...]
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Once upon a time, my husband was a little boy. Well, no, perhaps not little. He’s six foot ten inches now, he was never really little. But he was younger. And when he was younger, he had lots of wrestling action figures and watched wrestling on television. And he never stopped watching wrestling on television. [...]
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The last few years I’ve been making more decisions that are based on living greener. One of these was to stop using paper towels in the kitchen. I was tired of watching my limited supply of money being thrown in the trash every day, and I wanted to reduce my family’s waste. I needed a [...]
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