Welcome to the Crap and the Crazy by Tash Kritter
Tash owns Little Wooden Toybox and is mother of two teens; both with Autism, ADHD and PDA.
10 years in early intervention working with the kids’ OTs, Speechies and psychologists has given Tash unique insight into understanding difficult behaviours and why they occur, as well as understanding how emotional regulation and sensory input impacts us and our behaviour.
This insight has helped Tash to design and implement resources & coping strategies to make home life calmer and more organised.
Join Tash as she talks about day-to-day life with Autism; the sucky bits and the wins, plus tips for enjoying life despite the challenges.
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Understand & Manage Challenging Behaviours:
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Sensory & Emotional Regulation Printables
CourseIncludes 102 pages of activities to better understand and recognise emotions, learn about sensory profiles and how this impacts our emotions and behaviour, plus tools and strategies to understand and manage difficult behaviours and meltdowns.
$39
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Routines and Visual Schedules Printables
CourseIncludes 178 pages of printables to set up routines and visual schedules for home, therapy and school plus learn about food, my body, weather, days of the week, months, seasons, clothing, cooking, ordering, sequencing and more!
$39
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FMS: Cutting & Handwriting Printables
CourseIncludes 171 pages of printables to develop scissor control, hand strength, bilateral coordination, pincer grip, correct letter formation, writing first and last name, colouring between the lines, puzzles, handwriting and more!
$39
Our Crazy Life
Funny little snippets of our daily life... Hope you get a laugh!
The Spider
A Day in the LIfe - Nov 29 2018
Spider in an ASD house! This was hilarious (and horrible insensitive mother alert)
Me - I was in the shower.
Miss - walks into the bathroom and says 'There's a spider' and looks a bit shocked (no pointing, no additional info given - I am supposed to mind read - typical ASD trait)
Me - spider's not in shower, not too bothered
Lochie - walks in, oblivious to spider
Miss - faces Lochie (terrified) 'You have a spider' (again no additional info given)
Lochie - panicking, looking around everywhere
Me - opens shower door, tis not a huntsman cause I can't see it, no need to bother...
Miss - backs right into the corner (she has shut down by now - she's not speaking - not her choice, fight/flight response has set in)
Lochie - all of a sudden screams at Miss 'WHERE'S THE SPIDER??? USE YOUR WORDS' as he steps closer to MIss and starts the 'get the spider off me dance'
Me - I still can't see the spider and say to Lochie 'She can't chick, she's shut down' (laughing I have to admit)
Miss - screams GET AWAY FROM ME!! (As far as she is concerned he has a spider on him and she doesn't want to be within a mile of him or the spider)
Lochie - bloodcurdling scream as said spider runs up/down his leg. He kicks it off (I still haven't even seen it at this point and they are both within 1m of me)
Me - pissing myself laughing!!!! Oh it was hilarious! It all happened in slow motion and sometimes if you don't laugh you'll just rock and cry. To see both their ASD traits in full swing over a teeny tiny spider was highly entertaining. Yes that's awful I know.
Lochie - bursts into tears and walks away yelling a Miss for not telling him where it was
Miss - bolts as soon as the door way is clear
Lochie - comes back crying for some sort of comfort from his terrible mother. Sees me laughing, starts laugh-crying cause he's beginning to calm down and realises his big overreaction.
Lochie - starts to play with the spider on the floor, poking it with his fingers (yes fingers!!!!) to make it run. Go figure. He loves spiders by the way
Miss - comes back in later 'Am I in trouble for not talking?'
Me - No Miss, you didn't have a choice. You shut down and couldn't say anything. It's not your fault.
Lochie comes back - 'Well she's rubbish in an emergency situation, she won't want to do that when she's older'
30 mins later - Miss finally can tell me where the spider came from - it was on a web in the doorway and Lochie walked right into it.
P.S. We overall don't have a fear of spiders, if it was a real fear I would have (maybe?! I would like to think so anyway) reacted differently. Having said that clearly choosing to play with a spider and having a spider land on you are evidently two very different things...
Poor Miss is still upset. She would have slept in my bed but the spider is still sitting under the cat food bowl...
Me - I was in the shower.
Miss - walks into the bathroom and says 'There's a spider' and looks a bit shocked (no pointing, no additional info given - I am supposed to mind read - typical ASD trait)
Me - spider's not in shower, not too bothered
Lochie - walks in, oblivious to spider
Miss - faces Lochie (terrified) 'You have a spider' (again no additional info given)
Lochie - panicking, looking around everywhere
Me - opens shower door, tis not a huntsman cause I can't see it, no need to bother...
Miss - backs right into the corner (she has shut down by now - she's not speaking - not her choice, fight/flight response has set in)
Lochie - all of a sudden screams at Miss 'WHERE'S THE SPIDER??? USE YOUR WORDS' as he steps closer to MIss and starts the 'get the spider off me dance'
Me - I still can't see the spider and say to Lochie 'She can't chick, she's shut down' (laughing I have to admit)
Miss - screams GET AWAY FROM ME!! (As far as she is concerned he has a spider on him and she doesn't want to be within a mile of him or the spider)
Lochie - bloodcurdling scream as said spider runs up/down his leg. He kicks it off (I still haven't even seen it at this point and they are both within 1m of me)
Me - pissing myself laughing!!!! Oh it was hilarious! It all happened in slow motion and sometimes if you don't laugh you'll just rock and cry. To see both their ASD traits in full swing over a teeny tiny spider was highly entertaining. Yes that's awful I know.
Lochie - bursts into tears and walks away yelling a Miss for not telling him where it was
Miss - bolts as soon as the door way is clear
Lochie - comes back crying for some sort of comfort from his terrible mother. Sees me laughing, starts laugh-crying cause he's beginning to calm down and realises his big overreaction.
Lochie - starts to play with the spider on the floor, poking it with his fingers (yes fingers!!!!) to make it run. Go figure. He loves spiders by the way
Miss - comes back in later 'Am I in trouble for not talking?'
Me - No Miss, you didn't have a choice. You shut down and couldn't say anything. It's not your fault.
Lochie comes back - 'Well she's rubbish in an emergency situation, she won't want to do that when she's older'
30 mins later - Miss finally can tell me where the spider came from - it was on a web in the doorway and Lochie walked right into it.
P.S. We overall don't have a fear of spiders, if it was a real fear I would have (maybe?! I would like to think so anyway) reacted differently. Having said that clearly choosing to play with a spider and having a spider land on you are evidently two very different things...
Poor Miss is still upset. She would have slept in my bed but the spider is still sitting under the cat food bowl...
The Dead Bird
A Day in the Life - Jun 17 2019
Random read A day in the life of us
Our shopping trip... fairly uneventful till getting in the car & the ride home. Lots of yelling and laughing!
I point out a dead bird in the carpark (my first mistake)
Miss of course couldn't care less
Mr feels sorry for the bird
I start getting everything in the boot of the car
Turn around and Mr is poking the bird
Me: DON'T TOUCH THE BIRD
Mr: I'M NOT TOUCHING THE BIRD
Me: YOU'RE CLEARLY TOUCHING THE BIRD!!!!
Mr: Walks over to me and starts touching me & the shopping
Me: DON'T TOUCH ME!!! GET YOUR HANDS OFF
Mr: I DIDN'T TOUCH THE BIRD
Me: YOU DID
Mr: I TOUCHED THE RUBBISH THAT TOUCHED THE BIRD!!! (he was poking it with some random gross piece of rubbish next to the dead bird, cause that's so much better)
Kids are so gross
The whole ride home was pretty similar - we were both in moods and ASD traits were in full swing.
My boy asked a million times ('I don't know' was not an acceptable answer) what my fav Mesozoic dinosaur is (??? seriously I have no brain space for this) so finally to try and get the point across I invented a 'Dontgiveacraposaurus' to which my man was highly offended but also couldn't be fully mad at me cause I couldn't stop laughing
Our shopping trip... fairly uneventful till getting in the car & the ride home. Lots of yelling and laughing!
I point out a dead bird in the carpark (my first mistake)
Miss of course couldn't care less
Mr feels sorry for the bird
I start getting everything in the boot of the car
Turn around and Mr is poking the bird
Me: DON'T TOUCH THE BIRD
Mr: I'M NOT TOUCHING THE BIRD
Me: YOU'RE CLEARLY TOUCHING THE BIRD!!!!
Mr: Walks over to me and starts touching me & the shopping
Me: DON'T TOUCH ME!!! GET YOUR HANDS OFF
Mr: I DIDN'T TOUCH THE BIRD
Me: YOU DID
Mr: I TOUCHED THE RUBBISH THAT TOUCHED THE BIRD!!! (he was poking it with some random gross piece of rubbish next to the dead bird, cause that's so much better)
Kids are so gross
The whole ride home was pretty similar - we were both in moods and ASD traits were in full swing.
My boy asked a million times ('I don't know' was not an acceptable answer) what my fav Mesozoic dinosaur is (??? seriously I have no brain space for this) so finally to try and get the point across I invented a 'Dontgiveacraposaurus' to which my man was highly offended but also couldn't be fully mad at me cause I couldn't stop laughing