My Autistic Boy And Other Adventures In Fatherhood

A few of you (most in 1:1 emails) have asked me what I’m going to do ‘job-wise’ by this set back in re: to the insurance situation?  As it stands right now, as I said re: COBRA, there isn’t anything that I ‘have to do’ right now.

The hope is in the next week or so that I can sign up a few more clients, and that will give me good insight into my opportunities to be a small businessman.  

However, I have spoke to a few people (including the grown ups, my parents) and am related to an example that might be one of the options.

First: Kim could come to work for me, as I posted yesterday, but we don’t know what the requirements of that are.  Does she have to be full time? Does the company need to be incorporated a certain way?  Those things just need to be explored or thought about, if we do decide to go this way.

Second: Kim could become a teaching assistant at one of the local elementary schools.  This way we could get on the ‘govt. dime’ and use that employment resource for insurance.  I was reminded (here’s where my conversation with my father took place) that this is a very similar to many people he knows in his life …and also similar to my in-laws (my father-in-law is self-employed, my mother-in-law works for an agency that supports the govt. of the great State of Kansas).  The in-laws are on her insurance, which works for them.

So what to do?  Well, we’ll see on those clients, and then if the assistant teacher route is the one we want to follow, then Kim has to begin researching the reality of that one immediately. 

And who is to say that the self-employed route makes me an entrepreneur for the rest of my life…or over the months I have COBRA?  Who knows if I end up taking another corporate job, cuz I can’t make the numbers work, and these past postings are all for naught?

So many things to consider…

Anyway, about ¾ of you like my news postings.  So here are a few from this past week:

Whew!

We all know Legos are simply the greatest toys in the world.

WitchyPoo, you Canuck….this might interest you in particular.

Dogs and autistics….one of the reasons Buddy came into our life was to add a dog to the tools to bring Demetrius out of his shell….Once in awhile Demetrius is interested in Buddy.  But here’s a story on one of the theories.

Interesting research on eye gene roles in autism…..