Berry Picking
First, would you please check out the determination on the face of this sweet berry picker?!? Adorable.
Now, check out the photos again. Can you see the netting over the blueberries? The farmers at our local farm wisely use this to keep the birds from stealing all their blueberries. Good call, Farmers.
Before we arrived, a bird had become caught in the netting and died. It was stuck there! I am terrified of birds to begin with, and a dead bird hanging above my head was sending me into a serious spiral.
Mikey, totally oblivious to the aforementioned dead bird, charged right ahead, focused on picking his blueberries. I couldn’t let him go on his own out of a fear that he would notice the bird eventually and God forbid, touch it! Yuck!
So, I followed along, staying as far away from the bird as possible, but I could barely take my eyes off of it…this day was so traumatic for me, but Mikey was just focused on the task at hand. Thankfully, he was a very good berry picker at this point – he didn’t need my help picking at all – and we went home with our full pints!
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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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