What is Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) In layman’s terms, autism is a neurological disorder diagnosis that impacts the brain. This can be observed by non-healthcare professionals among kids through sensory characteristics such as dislike on particular clothes or food; stimming where they do things repetitively such as spinning in circles; language and speech delay; and, comprehension …
On Parenting Parenting is an exciting adventure! When you become a parent for the first time, you’re consciously learning how to be a parent. When the next baby comes along, you think if you figured it out the first time around, you sure could do it better this time. However, you would come to realize …
Unsolicited Pregnancy Comments Today’s topic is about something that really hits home. Those who know me well know that I and my husband Dane have a six-year-old Nate, our only son. Since he was two, we have been getting friendly comments and advice to give him a sibling saying it’s sad to be an only …
This week’s episode, I am with my son, Nate just having a good talk about COVID19, his dream to be a chemist, to go to Japan, his favorite game, and a whole lot more. Nate is 7 years old and is in first grade this school year.
Above Rubies Podcast is a podcast created by a mom for every mom (and parents for that matter) embracing parenthood and sanity. Here to help you get by through weekly discussions on parenting, relationships, home, and faith as you juggle daily in life! This week’s episode we have Mommy Belle Prado, a tech-savvy geek who transitioned …
This week, we have Mommy Richelle of Morena Mom to talk about her experience in living away from the city as well as her homeschooling journey. It has been such a meaningful conversation of taking a leap of faith, believing in yourself and pursuing what you love to do.
Kids, as we know, have sharp memories. After a few replays of Bible lessons on YouTube, Nate has familiarized the Genesis story about Noah and the Ark. So we filmed a video of him retelling that story (before he forgets about it, lol). We hope you like it! Comment below to boost Nate’s confidence in …
Nate turned six 2 weeks ago, 2020’s overspeeding! Just a few weeks from now and we’re halfway through the year. This COVID19 made the time fly even much faster. When ECQ was announced in Bataan, I somehow knew it would last long. That means, no graduation rites and possibly no birthday celebration at the beach …
Earlier today, we were at the school we were eyeing for Nate to enroll in Kindergarten. This is it – Nate is going to school already! For two years, I’ve been teaching him at home from time to time and since he’s turning 5 next month, he’s ready (or he should be ready) to go …
In my previous post, I talked about us deciding to delay enrolling Nate in a school for another year and just do informal homeschooling for the last year that he’s exclusively ours. So far, our so-called homeschooling is going fine. We spend 30 mins to 1 hour every Mondays to Fridays for this. I call it …