Our Monday winner of the Autism Awareness Wrightslaw Special Education Law & Advocacy WebEx Training CD is Bonnie Sayers. Bonnie is actually the first name pulled that came from the My Great Kid Twitter side (remember the names are getting randomly pulled from both accounts combined) though as it turns out she actually was a [...]
April 2010
She lives in Orlando, has two young boys (one of which has Asperger’s), works in Education and advocates for Special Needs Children. She authors a couple of interesting blogs Diary of A Crazed Mommy and The Crazed Mommy Reviews, like’s Glee, Top Chef and The Thomas Crowne Affair. In the past month she’s tweeted (@Shash)about [...]
Study: Spanking Leads To More Aggressive Behavior – Time Magazine Spanking Kids Makes Them More Aggressive, Defiant & Prone To Tantrums – NY Daily News Spanking Leads To More Aggressive Kids – NPR Spanking Toddlers Leads To Aggressive Behavior – Baltimore Sun Spanking Is (Still) Wrong – NY Times ~ Motherlode Blog Spanking Your Kid [...]
I’ve had it. I’ve seriously had it. I started on this yesterday (Sunday now, I wrote this on Monday but waited to post it, so I could cool down a bit) at the end of the show but I’ve got to tell you that I wasn’t done (and know some of you didn’t get the [...]
There are lots of tax deductions that you can get for medical expenses including….. Guide Dogs or Other Service Animals Medical Conferences Therapy Transportation expenses related to medical care (.24 cents per mile) Special Education Expenses Tutoring Specialty school tuition I’m not an accountant or tax attorney, etc. but the deductions (if you haven’t already [...]
Found this article this morning and thought it was pretty interesting : 1. Don’t try to get anything past us. Prescriptions for painkillers or sleeping aids always get extra scrutiny. 2. We’re not serving fries in here. I’d think twice about using a drive-through pharmacy. Working there distracts us-not a good thing when it comes [...]
Great interviews this week! Jim Amick from Nordic Naturals, who is one of the show sponsors but he’s one of the show sponsors because we’ve been long time fans of Nordic Naturals Fish Oils, joined us to tell us a little bit about fish oils and the Nordic Natural products. You hear all the time [...]
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Adonya Wong! Mom, Author, Advocate, Nonprofit Founder Adonya is the winner of the Wrightslaw Special Education Law & Advocacy Training Series WebEx CD – Law & Advocacy (6.5 hrs). Adonya is the mother of a son with Autism, Author of a book on Autism –
We drew our 1st fan for our 1st Autism Awareness Month giveaway to give away our 1st Wrightslaw Special Education Law & Advocacy Training Series – Understanding Your Child’s Test Scores WebEx CD (whew, lots of 1st in that sentence) and the winner is …….
We’re hearing lots of hype about the Apple Ipad this week and I have to admit that after checking one out myself it’s a pretty impressive little tool. The question of course is …. what kind of tool is it really? It’s easy to criticize it as just a blown up IPod, Ipod Touch, Iphone, [...]
The kids that make every meal a ……. challenging, torturous, frustrating, hair-pulling experience (though many other adjectives would fit there too)…. THE PICKY EATER It’s not just that if you don’t give into them they can make the whole meal a test of wills, it’s also the fact that you worry …. Are they really [...]
A recipe from Jill Bloomfield’s (this week’s guest on The My Great Kid Radio Show) cookbook ….. Matzoh brei Matzoh brei (pronounced MAHT-zoh BRY) is a fun-to-eat breakfast. It’s a lot like traditional French toast, only it’s made with matzoh instead of bread. “We wait all year to eat matzoh brei! We like it for [...]
Thanks to our newest sponsors – Tree Town Toys – we’ve now got some additional giveaways for the month of April, in honor of Autism Awareness. We already announced earlier this week our Wrightslaw Special Education CD giveaways and now we also have …. 4 – $25 Tree Town Toy Gift Certificates To Give Away [...]
As a special “thank you” to all of our friends and in honor of Autism Awareness Month (and oddly enough Stress Awareness Month – coincidence that these two are both in the same month?) we are offering the following My Great Kid – Help My Kid Giveaway What are we giving away …….
I just wanted to take a moment to thank all of you reading and following this blog and the radio show. March was a great month for us. The Website blew up it’s records for best single day, week and month for visitors. The audience has been growing steadily but March was a month that [...]
