Advent Calendar
At this stage of Mikey’s life, a chocolate advent calendar would have been gone in one day. To top that, his brother’s would have been gone as well and Mikey would have had a major tummy ache. We needed another plan.
We used this ‘lower incentive’ advent calendar to teach the concept of how those calendars are supposed to work. In other words, “One per day, for the love of Moses!” A picture of a snowman is fun, but it is easier to wait a day for the next picture than the next piece of chocolate.
Now we tend towards activity-based advent calendars like Lego or puzzles. Those are working out well for Mikey.
For a meaningful advent tradition that you might want to share with your family, click the link below.
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Erica Mauro is a mom to two teenage boys, Will who is neurotypical and Michael with Autism and cognitive delays. She holds a BA in Psychology from Colgate University and a Masters of Psychology in Education from Columbia Teacher’s College. Before staying home with her children, she worked as an elementary school teacher. For five years, she served on the Board of Directors of the Molly Ann Tango Memorial Foundation, a charity dedicated to enriching the lives of children with special needs. In partnership with her husband Dave, she aspires to parent by using daily life as an opportunity for therapeutic intervention, seizing on real experiences as opportunities to build skills and strategies for Michael in a joyful, loving home environment. On the tougher early days, she just tried to get everyone safely to bedtime and start fresh in the morning. *wink* 
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