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With Chadwick helping to stabilize her right wrist and her mother watching, a girl thought to be incapable of learning to read or write slowly typed, "I love Mom." (See pictures of a school for autistic children...
...difficulty bringing different cognitive functions together in an integrated way. There is a tendency to hyperfocus on detail and miss the big picture. Coordinating volition with movement and sensation can be difficult for some. Chandima Rajapatirana, an autistic writer from Potomac, Md., offers this account: "Helplessly I sit while Mom calls me to come. I know what I must do, but often I can't get up until she says, 'Stand up,'" he writes. "[The] knack of knowing where my body is does not come easy for me. Interestingly I do not know if I am sitting or standing...
...that's what I did ..." I've never considered myself an eco-mom, but when it comes to my family's health, I don't want to be proved wrong after the fact. For the most part, the answer to whether these products are safe is: we don't know. Not much research has been done. Still, it nearly killed me to dump my Costco cache. Luckily, Target now sells eco-cleaners...
AFTER YEARS OF WATCHING HER SON KALE, 11, scramble for the soccer ball, Paige Brodie had an epiphany one day. "We spend so much time sitting on our butts watching these games," she thought, "we should play ourselves." With that, the Sherborn, Mass., mother of three organized a moms' team and became a new kind of soccer mom--one who plays in her own league...
Brodie, 43, and her teammates are part of a burgeoning trend of moms taking up their children's sports. At the John Smith Sports Center, where Brodie plays, the number of mothers' teams has shot up since 2000 from four to 14, including eight that cater to soccer novices. And it isn't just soccer: the International Society of Skateboarding Moms, for example, founded in 2004 by Barb Odanaka, author of Skateboard Mom, boasts 350 members. From kayaking to hockey to wall climbing, mothers are imitating their kids...