{"id":74,"date":"2012-06-23T11:51:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T11:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/?p=74"},"modified":"2012-06-23T11:51:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-23T11:51:15","slug":"workin-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/23\/workin-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Workin&#8217; It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Gym-workin-it-06-20-12-e1340451164784.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-75\" title=\"Gym workin it 06-20-12\" src=\"http:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Gym-workin-it-06-20-12-e1340451164784.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2448\" height=\"3264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some days, life&#8217;s a beach; on others, it&#8217;s a workout, you sweat and come home muscle-tired, but\u00a0with that toned feeling that\u00a0carries you through.\u00a0That&#8217;s us this week.\u00a0 Here on Day 4 of vacation, not that I&#8217;m still counting, we SURVIVED the first relatively unstructured few days!\u00a0 Yay!\u00a0 Despite near-100 degree heat, thorny behaviors and too much work stress and work.\u00a0 Brief lessons for this mom:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ask for help &#8211; don&#8217;t know what I would have done without a most favorite, capable respite person.\u00a0 The visiting behaviorist also shows promise, although like all ABA there&#8217;s a temporary increase in parental jobs associated with data collection and behavior plan implementation that adds to the To Do list.<\/li>\n<li>Offer choices &#8211; it makes me feel so good to hear my sons say No when I offer an option, and to have them choose from among destinations for purchasing-program trips or free time pursuits.<\/li>\n<li>Listen to the\u00a0behavior-language &#8211; it talks, and as parents of the autistic we have to learn to hear it with the same listening deeply that we apply to the spoken word.\u00a0 After my prohibiting access to the side of the house with the bathroom, since I was sick of his multiple disrobes, W. proceeded to have his first toileting accident in five years.\u00a0\u00a0Lesson for mom:\u00a0 many behaviors start from genuine bodily needs, sensory or otherwise, even if I read them as protests or simple devilment.<\/li>\n<li>Celebrate the small stuff.\u00a0 The above pic represents a blissful moment when we used\u00a0a new gym membership together, helped by\u00a0the\u00a0above-mentioned wonderful aide.\u00a0 Each guy did purposeful 5-min workouts on treadmill, eliptical and stairmaster.\u00a0 To others, these would be trifling.\u00a0\u00a0 For us, considering the workout was done by both boys together,\u00a0outside our basement, each really trying and\u00a0able to block out the auditory overload of a big room and the workouts of others nearby, it&#8217;s the seed we&#8217;ve planted for more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some days you work it; some days it works you; and others, you endure even more because of the strength you built from sweating the small stuff &#8211; literally.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some days, life&#8217;s a beach; on others, it&#8217;s a workout, you sweat and come home muscle-tired, but\u00a0with that toned feeling that\u00a0carries you through.\u00a0That&#8217;s us this week.\u00a0 Here on Day 4 of vacation, not that I&#8217;m still counting, we SURVIVED the first relatively unstructured few days!\u00a0 Yay!\u00a0 Despite near-100 degree heat, thorny behaviors and too much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}