School is officially underway. As I sat in my 2nd Curriculum Night of the week, I breathed a bit of a sigh of relief. It’s my 3rd year in both my daughter’s elementary school and my son’s middle school. I know the routine. I understand how the special ed program at the middle school is supporting […]
Family life has a lot of routine to it. A lot of us keep the routines in our heads and use our calendars just to manage the exceptions. But trying to keep track of everything in our heads actually adds to the stress of keeping the family running smoothly. “Clearing the Mental Clutter” is good […]
If you’ve got kids who are involved in after school activities, this blog post is for you. If you’re a Stay-At-Home-Parent, you’re trying to coordinate everything and make sure the kids are where they need to be. And you want them getting picked up and dropped off on time. If you’re a working parent, you’re trying to […]
I remember when my son’s middle school PE teacher reached out to me and asked me if I thought my son would like to join the track team. I was elated! My son has Autism and somehow, through all the speech therapy, ABA therapy, IEP meetings and everything else, I had just given up on […]
Behind every strong person IS a supportive family. Knowing how to coordinate work and family schedules across work and family calendars is a key to success.
For working parents, having a plan for what the kids will do over the summer when they are off from school is important — and stressful. It’s expensive. There aren’t always a lot of options. My school aged daughter doesn’t even want to go to camp, asking me if I could stay home with her instead. […]
Because I work on Outlook Calendar at Microsoft, I see requests all the time to “automatically add travel time to my calendar”. Why don’t we see this in Calendar solutions out there today? It’s a bit tricky. Before I tackle the question of “Why Not?”, let me give some advice on how to deal with […]
When your kids become teenagers, one of the biggest things they need to learn is how to be independent. They WANT to be independent. It’s our job to help them learn to be both independent AND responsible. The same goes for a kid on the Autism spectrum. The challenge for the parents is a bit […]
I should say that a calendar could have saved the Tooth Fairy! It all started last night. My 9 year old daughter announced that she had lost a tooth while eating dinner. It’s been loose for weeks. Later that evening as my daughter was ready for bed and just coming up to have me tuck […]
It’s hard enough for a typical family to keep track of everything between school holidays, career deadlines, soccer games and business trips. How does a split family do it? I’m divorced and I’ve found that sharing a calendar is the key to successful communication and coordination. To be blunt, I really don’t like needing to […]
