Misc.

It’s One Of My Favorite Poems

by Steve on 27, July, 2010

Some days it gets hard to remember why we as parents, teachers, grandparents and advocates for kids do it.  Some days it gets easy to think that maybe enough is enough, you’ve put in enough time, you’ve tried hard enough and now it’s time to either just walk away or loosen your grip and let [...]

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In the game of chess the most abundant, least powerful, most easily sacrificed and least valuable piece is the pawn. Unlike the King (who’s protection is the key to the game) the pawn is not a piece you really worry too much about losing.  In fact, the pawn’s real value comes from the fact that [...]

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Wednesday and Tuesday at 3:00pm If you pull nothing else out of our interview with Fare Compare those two pieces of information alone will save you thousands. Why Wednesday? Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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This weekend we’re doing a show that Staci has really been wanting to do for a while and is really excited to share with you.  In the summer we’re bombarded with the suntan, sunblock, sun lotion argument … So what’s a parent to do when it comes to keeping their family safe in the sun? [...]

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The government can’t get an oil well capped in the Gulf but they want to give the President the power to shut down the Internet?

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Gluten Free Help

by Steve on 14, June, 2010

The biggest challenge with Gluten Free is that, especially in the beginning, it means taste free and giving up the stuff you love.  Maybe not …. Gluten Free Pie Crust: Impossibly Easy | Gluten Free Cooking School Gluten Free Pizza Recipe | Gluten Free Cooking School Hershey Pie with a Rice Cereal Crust | Gluten [...]

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I support the idea of Autism Insurance legislation. But I’ll confess that I struggle with it…quite a bit actually. I consider myself a libertarian leaning conservative so in my opinion the smaller, less intrusive we can get our government to be the better.  So, for obvious reasons my support of the idea of mandated Autism [...]

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Gerard Mantese (Mantese, Honigman, Rossman and Williamson) and John J. Conway are on the front lines of the Autism Insurance fight in the state of Michigan.  However, unlike those that are fighting for legislation to require Autism coverage these lawyers are fighting in the courtrooms to get the Insurance companies to cover the children that, [...]

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We aired our interview with Lorri Unumb from Autism Speaks this past Sunday, however, we weren’t able to cover everything that we wanted to. You see Lorri was extremely gracious to move her schedule around to allow us the opportunity to pre-record our interview with her last week for our Sunday show. Originally the plan [...]

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Is your family (or are your kids) Red Dye #40 free (did you know that stuff is a derivative of coal)? Here’s an interesting recipe that allows you to make Red Velvet Cake / Cupcakes and you’ll never guess how this Mom got the red naturally …… she used beets! Beets in cake?  Hey, she [...]

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At What Cost Technology?

by Steve on 7, June, 2010

We’re surrounded by technology and it’s becoming even more ingrained in every little facet of our day (at least that’s what my Twitter, Facebook, Buzz,  Squidoo, Delicious, Digg, Tumblr, 7 email accounts, Ipod, Droid, GPS and Laptop would lead me to believe) .  Between texting, pinging, poking, facebooking, emailing, calling, posting, tweeting, buzzing and favoriting [...]

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This week in our interview with Robert Siciliano we discussed the wide spread threat of Identity theft.  During the interview we covered a variety of topics including : Why Credit Cards are a safer alternative to Debt Cards How your fax machine and copiers could be sneakily stealing your identity without your knowing it The one [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 –

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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 [...]

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