http://teenautism.com/2008/05/31/ask-and-you-shall-receive/ Beyond ABA, after OT . . . what now? Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:59:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://teenautism.com/2008/05/31/ask-and-you-shall-receive/#comment-49 Tanya Savko Sun, 01 Jun 2008 22:07:26 +0000 http://teenautism.com/2008/05/31/ask-and-you-shall-receive/#comment-49 Mom, thanks for your beautiful words of love. Can't wait to see you at Lassen! Tanya Mom, thanks for your beautiful words of love. Can’t wait to see you at Lassen!
Tanya

]]> http://teenautism.com/2008/05/31/ask-and-you-shall-receive/#comment-43 Madeline Rose Savko Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:14:17 +0000 http://teenautism.com/2008/05/31/ask-and-you-shall-receive/#comment-43 What a beautiful day, what a beautiful experience for all of you. I am sorry for the terror you felt as a mother, and SO PROUD of how you handled the whole delicate event. I don't imagine you remember anything of the last half of Prince Caspian, the movie, using that time to work through your emotions and plans on handling it all. You impress me greatly with your parenting skills of recognizing your children as individuals, and respecting their autonomy, while maintaining your necessary parental authority. Congratulations! You are succeeding on what I struggled through with mixed success. When I became a mother I tried to "break" and overcome the painful environmental deficiencies I experienced while being raised as a child and teenager, but I was broken myself and had no learned skills to go on, other than wishes and a strong desire to be a really perfect parent. I tried so hard. I believe I got the love and devotion part down good! I wish I could "re-do" some of the other parts, knowing what I know today. And, some of what I know today I have learned observing you, Tanya. Seeing you, in your generation, pick up and improve whatever you learned from your childhood makes my heart sing with happiness and pride. As you know, I encourage, support, and applaud with my whole heart your philosophy to go after and attain your dreams, responsibly. As someone who had a consuming dream form at age 11, and almost 50 years later am seeing it come to fruition this summer, I can attest to the peaceful feeling of wholeness that comes with that. You have shared your support with me in that journey, watched me go after it, and cheered me on. And, I believe you learned from that and were inspired by it. I'm happy you are teaching your boys, my grandsons, to seek responsible fulfillment of their dreams. I know you are working on, and accomplishing some of yours. Life may throw us curves that sideline us for a while, but eventually we can get there, and it's all good. May we all always have more dreams and goals to reach for and attain in our lives! With love, Mom. What a beautiful day, what a beautiful experience for all of you. I am sorry for the terror you felt as a mother, and SO PROUD of how you handled the whole delicate event. I don’t imagine you remember anything of the last half of Prince Caspian, the movie, using that time to work through your emotions and plans on handling it all. You impress me greatly with your parenting skills of recognizing your children as individuals, and respecting their autonomy, while maintaining your necessary parental authority. Congratulations! You are succeeding on what I struggled through with mixed success. When I became a mother I tried to “break” and overcome the painful environmental deficiencies I experienced while being raised as a child and teenager, but I was broken myself and had no learned skills to go on, other than wishes and a strong desire to be a really perfect parent. I tried so hard. I believe I got the love and devotion part down good! I wish I could “re-do” some of the other parts, knowing what I know today. And, some of what I know today I have learned observing you, Tanya. Seeing you, in your generation, pick up and improve whatever you learned from your childhood makes my heart sing with happiness and pride. As you know, I encourage, support, and applaud with my whole heart your philosophy to go after and attain your dreams, responsibly. As someone who had a consuming dream form at age 11, and almost 50 years later am seeing it come to fruition this summer, I can attest to the peaceful feeling of wholeness that comes with that. You have shared your support with me in that journey, watched me go after it, and cheered me on. And, I believe you learned from that and were inspired by it. I’m happy you are teaching your boys, my grandsons, to seek responsible fulfillment of their dreams. I know you are working on, and accomplishing some of yours. Life may throw us curves that sideline us for a while, but eventually we can get there, and it’s all good.
May we all always have more dreams and goals to reach for and attain in our lives! With love, Mom.

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