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Life With Paul - Living with FASD
http://lifewithpaul.com
This is dedicated to Paul (not his real name) and the thousands of children like him, born with FASD (Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder).
Recent Posts
Paul Get Locked Down
After restricting Paul’s video game time, he stopped being able to get out of bed in the morning. He also became obsessed with my work schedule. It took some time for us to put these two things together but after a while we began to specula...
Paul Checks Out
After telling Paul about FASD his behaviour became worse. It started slowly; he would try less and less until the reason finally became clear to us. He was using FASD as an excuse not to try things that he shouldn’t be good at. Where he u...
Summer with Paul
It’s been a while since my last post, with Paul’s baseball season and my work I have been swamped. Now that summer break is upon us Paul is at home with the daycare kids. It is interesting to watch the way he interacts with them. ...
Paul Loses His Weekend
This weekend was a wash for Paul. He left a big Social Studies project to the last minute, despite us bugging him to bring it home and start working. On Tuesday we finally resorted to the old “If you don’t bring it, we’ll go get...
Paul Gets Caught
Sorry, it’s been awhile since my last post. In addition to the joys of shift work there, is allot on my plate right now and this kind of fell to the side. This week Paul and his friends got caught throwing things in front of cars during lunch...
Paul’s bad day gets longer…
Anyone dealing alcohol affected children knows that they have good days and bad days. Lately it seems that Paul has been having nothing but bad days. Monday night he had a meltdown because it was time for his shower and he wanted to watch TV. I wa...
