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Halloween: 2017
Those of you who have been following Feeding the Soil for a while know that Halloween planning starts early around here. I let my boys keep a running list of what they might like to dress up as this year. They know they can add whatever they want to the list all the way up until the cut-off date. After that date, they have to stick with the costume they chose!Since we don’t buy Henry and Tate a lot of weapons for toys, Henry has gotten the idea to pick a costume that comes with a weapon (smart guy). This year he decided to be a devil so that… Read More -
Hello, Friends!
How have you been, dear Friends?Frankly, I’ve been overwhelmed by the weight of injustice in the world with the ascendance of Trump to power plus the resurgence of explicit, public white supremacy advocacy plus the spiraling threat of climate change plus the threat to immigrant rights and the rights of multiple other groups along various lines of difference. The worse part is that I know that my friends, colleagues, and neighbors who have less privilege than I do (as a white, cis-gender heterosexual with economic advantage) have to shoulder the weight of the injustice even more than I do.I continue to fight against injustice by focusing on a… Read More -
My Genetic Testing Update
We’ve been
on a journey in our family to get to the root of some of the issues we’ve been
having. The first issue we started addressing was Henry’s struggle with self-regulation.
It’s something we heard from teachers for multiple years before we finally took
action. When he was five years-old, we started him in a play-based therapy.
When his issues didn’t resolve themselves, we had him get tested by a
neuro-behavioralist (recommended by the therapist). Those results came back
pretty inconclusive. He said Henry might have ADHD in a few years but for now
it just looks like anxiety.He didn’t… Read More
have any solid answers about why a five
