Autism Parenting Tips: The Moments We Power Through

It's 16 degrees here this morning and all I wanted to do was warm up the car, scoop my kiddo into it and glide off to school like a well oiled parenting machine. But my son, Mr. Minnesota Winter himself, had other plans. He wanted to dilly dally outside and play in the cold like we're filming some sort of winter weather nature documentary. So definitely not my preferred activity. But this isn't my first winter rodeo with this kid. So I bundled up, grabbed the good boots, slid some hand warmers into my gloves and stepped out there to join him.

Because sometimes you don't redirect the moment you jump into it. Now his smile came naturally, but mine took about two minutes and two hand warmers. But we worked it out together. And parenting is full of these choices, the teening moments when you step into their joy, even when it's nowhere near your idea of fun. So tell me, what's something you do for your kids that you would never do on your own? Let's compare notes and stay warm together.