Take The Next Step: Complaint Button

This idea requires very little preparation, making it easy for you to teach your child an important lesson about “joy” even when circumstances are difficult, boring, or challenging. For this idea you’ll need a buzzer.  One of those really cool “That Was Easy” buzzers from Staples would be perfect!  However, any type of noise-maker will […]

Take The Next Step: Random Acts Of Kindness

As parents of children with special needs we’re often busy helping our child to learn daily life-skills such as communicating, social interactions, and self-help.  If we’re not careful the busyness of life  distracts us from looking for opportunities to teach our child God honoring character traits.  So here’s one easy idea that you can implement […]

Take The Next Step (Building Blocks)

Often we lose control when we don’t get things our own way. By nature we want what we want and we want it now! And, if we don’t get what we want we let everyone know just how unhappy it makes us. To be self-controlled means to have power over your reactions to people and […]

Take The Next Step (Family Photo)

A boy receives a train set as a gift from his father, but after a few standard runs, decides it’s more interesting to crash the trains, and does so repeatedly.  A little girl thinks nothing of standing on tables and singing at the top of her lungs in public. Some children with special needs are a […]