It may seem a strange thing to do when you live in the country, but today we took our kids into nature – in the city.

Although we have access to good nature right where we live, one of the advantages that city dwellers have – or let’s say town dwellers – is that they get given the equivalent of several hundred thousand dollars to create the ideal environment for their children to play in.

Driving to work on a early Monday morning after a stressful and unpleasant weekend, this glowing amber red sunrise triggered the mood for a much better start into a new week. It made me reflect on all the triggers we are exposed to throughout a single day.

Giovanni has autism and is considered for lack of better terms ‘low functioning’. You might have read some of his earlier success stories in the blog, and his journey continues. By following his interests and opening up to the way he learns- by moving, talking to himself, etc. Giovanni unlocked a potential that even his paraprofessional, who knows him for a couple years now, did not expect.

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Literacy Success Story Follow Up     After Giovanni’s success story during a previous literacy lesson (see blog "Literacy Success Stroy), I continued to use the same strategy. I had him join a group, had him process the way he needed to- even talking to himself, but he was physically close enough to listen, and he even read parts out loud fluently when I pointed to the words for him.