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Sitting with my son: what meditating with my son with Autism has shown me.

March 23, 2013

 

          My husband and I had been extremely stressed.  There was so much going on, too much in fact.  We have two sons (9 and 4), a menagerie of pets, two temperamental cars and a very messy house with a mortgage.  My husband has a stressful job and I had just returned to work, part time.  And my oldest son has autism.  A few months ago, he started to have problems at school, which caused us great concern.  We know, with autism, new challenges at home or at school routinely pop up.  This time it had been at school.  The catalyst for my son’s unhappiness could not be easily figured out.  There are always the “usual suspects” such as change of staff, change in programs, allergy season, weather, and so on.  Sometimes we cannot to figure it out, which makes the situation all the more disconcerting.  All we knew was that he was no longer happy going to school (a marked change).  So my husband and I started once again the process to vet out and fix the problem.   Appointments with doctors.  Meetings with...

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