Comments on: Why Do We, As Parents, Write? http://www.esteeklar.com/2009/07/03/why-do-we-as-parents-write/ To Get To The Other Side Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:31:41 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: K http://www.esteeklar.com/2009/07/03/why-do-we-as-parents-write/comment-page-1/#comment-3745 K Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:56:50 +0000 http://www.esteeklar.com/?p=1442#comment-3745 To parent purposefully - I think my blogging self helps me be the mother I want to be To learn from my mistakes and from all the learning moments not be doomed to learn the same things over and over again To connect with other mums I love my online friends To help other mums and dads with this perspective on happy and satisfied Autism parenting in the ways mums like you have helped me to create my history To parent purposefully – I think my blogging self helps me be the mother I want to be
To learn from my mistakes and from all the learning moments not be doomed to learn the same things over and over again
To connect with other mums
I love my online friends
To help other mums and dads with this perspective on happy and satisfied Autism parenting in the ways mums like you have helped me
to create my history

]]> By: Estee Klar http://www.esteeklar.com/2009/07/03/why-do-we-as-parents-write/comment-page-1/#comment-3744 Estee Klar Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:19:23 +0000 http://www.esteeklar.com/?p=1442#comment-3744 Kathleen, I like your answer! Kathleen, I like your answer!

]]> By: kathleen http://www.esteeklar.com/2009/07/03/why-do-we-as-parents-write/comment-page-1/#comment-3725 kathleen Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:10:47 +0000 http://www.esteeklar.com/?p=1442#comment-3725 I write to get perspective..Sometimes putting something down and then reading it-helps me to think things through. I write because I was tired of other peoples points of view being considered my own. I write to prove a point. I write to make people laugh (most of the time) I write to show people that my family-although different, deals with the same day to day stuff as any other family. I write because I want to change how the world perceives kids like mine. I write because I think my family is interesting and great. Wow-I guess I write because I have a big enough ego to convince myself that I can...and that it is good....maybe. I write to get perspective..Sometimes putting something down and then reading it-helps me to think things through. I write because I was tired of other peoples points of view being considered my own. I write to prove a point. I write to make people laugh (most of the time) I write to show people that my family-although different, deals with the same day to day stuff as any other family. I write because I want to change how the world perceives kids like mine. I write because I think my family is interesting and great. Wow-I guess I write because I have a big enough ego to convince myself that I can…and that it is good….maybe.

]]> By: farmwifetwo http://www.esteeklar.com/2009/07/03/why-do-we-as-parents-write/comment-page-1/#comment-3724 farmwifetwo Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:00:58 +0000 http://www.esteeklar.com/?p=1442#comment-3724 Until a year or so ago I couldn't read "true life" stories b/c they made me feel like a failure at times and their stories were so different than mine and I didn't know what to do next. But as the boys have grown and we've forged our own path, I've come to appreciate those stories. The feeling of "not being alone" even if their story is very much different than mine. I started my blog after the ABA disaster. That winter had I not blogged.... let's just say it was cheaper than therapy. I wasn't depressed, just seriously burnt out. I closed my blog in the end for personal reasons. I moved over to Trusera for a few months - transition really - closed it out and moved on. I did write my "story". I did submit it to my FSW, Dr, Ped, all 4 parties of the Fed gov't and am going to send it on Provincially but I need more copies first. It was only 27pgs but I thought important enough to tell. It's now up to 42... now it's more of an online, news article/autism hub posts journal as things come up that I have an opinion on. It's not a true journal since I'm filling it in book format... but again... it fills a need. What am I going to do with it.... no idea. Maybe no more than write b/c "it's cheaper than therapy" :) S Until a year or so ago I couldn’t read “true life” stories b/c they made me feel like a failure at times and their stories were so different than mine and I didn’t know what to do next.

But as the boys have grown and we’ve forged our own path, I’ve come to appreciate those stories. The feeling of “not being alone” even if their story is very much different than mine.

I started my blog after the ABA disaster. That winter had I not blogged…. let’s just say it was cheaper than therapy. I wasn’t depressed, just seriously burnt out. I closed my blog in the end for personal reasons. I moved over to Trusera for a few months – transition really – closed it out and moved on.

I did write my “story”. I did submit it to my FSW, Dr, Ped, all 4 parties of the Fed gov’t and am going to send it on Provincially but I need more copies first. It was only 27pgs but I thought important enough to tell. It’s now up to 42… now it’s more of an online, news article/autism hub posts journal as things come up that I have an opinion on. It’s not a true journal since I’m filling it in book format… but again… it fills a need.

What am I going to do with it…. no idea. Maybe no more than write b/c “it’s cheaper than therapy” :)

S

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