A Note From the Emily...

Hey everyone,

My youngest child is 8 years old, and I confess that we treat him differently than we do the older two. When our oldest was 8 years old and the second kiddo was 6, I’m pretty sure we were still sitting together in the evenings and reading together each evening. The youngest has an e-reader (specifically a Kobo, if you’re curious) and we tuck him under the covers with an entire world of books at his fingertips and let him read until his eyes get heavy and he falls asleep.

Recently, though, he’s been asking more frequently (like almost everyday) for a ride to school. In general, this is easy enough for me to do; my office is only a few minutes from his school and dropping him off actually gets me there a little bit earlier than usual. I was trying to figure out the uptick in the requests, and I think it has to do with our newly-established drive-to-school ritual. We’ve been listening to audiobooks.

I love to listen to audiobooks and I recently was listening to The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacy McAnulty. I had it on the car as we were driving to school and my 8yo was enthralled. This is a great middle grade novel (Do I read YA and middle grade novels for pleasure on my own? Yep, I do. Especially when the characters are neurodivergent!) and I’m realizing that this is a way for us to share that time making up for the other times we are too busy with all the things. 

Anyway, cheers to accidentally finding the small moments to connect with our kids that we may not have realized were there.

Neurodivergently yours,

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