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Latest blog posts from Life With Paul

Paul Get Locked Down
After restricting Paul’s video game time, he stopped being able to get out of bed in the morning.  He also became obsessed with my work schedule.  It took some time for us to put these two things together but after a while we began to speculate that Paul was sneaking into the basement at...
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Published 3 days ago

Paul Checks Out
After telling Paul about FASD his behaviour became worse.  It started slowly; he would try less and less until the reason finally became clear to us.  He was using FASD as an excuse not to try things that he shouldn’t be good at.  Where he used to try to control his meltdowns he actually...
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Published 3 days ago

Summer with Paul
It’s been a while since my last post, with Paul’s baseball season and my work I have been swamped.  Now that summer break is upon us Paul is at home with the daycare kids.   It is interesting to watch the way he interacts with them.  There is a 5 year old in care that has behavior similar...
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Published 5 months ago

Paul Loses His Weekend
This weekend was a wash for Paul.  He left a big Social Studies project to the last minute, despite us bugging him to bring it home and start working.  On Tuesday we finally resorted to the old “If you don’t bring it, we’ll go get it” which usually works.  The thought of one of us...
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Published 6 months ago

Paul Gets Caught
Sorry, it’s been awhile since my last post. In addition to the joys of shift work there, is allot on my plate right now and this kind of fell to the side. This week Paul and his friends got caught throwing things in front of cars during lunch at school. Paul’s acceptance of guilt varied...
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Published 6 months ago

Paul’s bad day gets longer…
Anyone dealing alcohol affected children knows that they have good days and bad days. Lately it seems that Paul has been having nothing but bad days. Monday night he had a meltdown because it was time for his shower and he wanted to watch TV. I was giving the baby his bedtime bottle when it...
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Published 6 months ago

Paul and the Staggered Development
We attended a workshop for people dealing with adolescents with FASD last night. During the workshop the presenter kept mentioning how parts of these children are lagging behind. Paul’s ability to function when he is tired, hungry or stressed is functioning at about a 2-4 year olds level. He...
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Published 7 months ago

Baseball Season
Every year we put Paul in baseball.  He seemed to enjoy it, but two years ago we got a bad coach.  One of the super competitive ones, that didn’t seem to realize that most of the team had never played before.  At the end of the season when they lost the city finals he cancelled the windup. ...
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Published 7 months ago

The House Hippo
Paul was watching TV today and saw the house hippo commercial. He ate it right up and before the commercial got to the part where it tells people that they need to think about what they see on TV, he said “I didn’t know there were house hippos”. This was a nice validation of how closely...
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Published 7 months ago

The Laundry
Right now we are trying to come up with a system to help Paul with his clothes.  His laundry hamper is always full a couple of days after he does laundry.  We make sure that all his clothes are put away on laundry day but somehow they always end up back in his hamper.  By Wednesday of every...
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Published 7 months ago