I need to make it clear again that Kender’s dog is only an autism service dog. We have never requested any special training regarding blindness from any agency. 4 Paws for Ability does not train dogs for blind people; they train dogs for autistic children. Everything in our contract makes it clear that this dog […]
Category Archives: Parenting
Kender’s Match Video, A Day in the Life
Today I am filming everything I can, along with extra commentary. It feels really strange and awkward to be filming commentary instead of typing it. Speech is not my natural communication medium. I do much better typing. But a video has been asked, and a video they shall receive. To be fair, insisting on filming […]
Kender’s Video, ad infinitum ad nauseum
Why, oh why, oh why did I put this off so long? How did I manage to forget about it? I have finally, as of this afternoon, completely processed all of the clips and random video I’ve collected over the past seven months. Great, so now I have all these behaviors labeled and sorted and […]
Snowmageddon!!!!
The Snowmageddon is upon us! Forecasters earlier last week started issuing watches and warnings about heavy snowfall and bitter cold. When predicted snow totals rose over 10″ and warnings were issued for “life-threatening wind chills,” people started to lose it a bit. I didn’t venture into the major stores like Meijer or Kroger on Saturday, […]
Kender’s Match Video, Day 4
Today sucked for Kender’s video work. I had hoped to get at least my own interview taped, but alas, time ran out. Two hours of shoveling snow may have contributed to that a bit! However, I did do something today. I confirmed that it is possible to fast forward in the editor I am using, […]
Kender’s Match Video, Day 3
Today I started playing around a bit with the Lightworks software. I think with a little more play I will be able to quickly get up and running. It has a really nice setup with lots of “rooms” and “bins” that will allow me to work on pieces of my screenplay at a time. I’ll […]
Kender’s Match Video, day 2
I’ve been learning a lot just in the past week of working on this. I suspect I’m going to learn a lot more before it’s done. It’s not that I don’t think I can do it. I know I can. I just want to whine and say, “I don’t wanna!” I got some more video […]
Kender’s Match Video, day 1
It’s time to seriously start working on the “match video” for Kender’s service dog. The packet telling us how to do this is five pages long, packed full of questions. They need to know absolutely everything, from our previous history with dogs to every quirk of Kender’s personality. First up is an interview with both […]
Kender’s Match Form, page 3
This is the last page of the form I’ve been filling out the past couple of days. What type of hair would they like? I chose “furry/soft” because it’s closest to the cats that he knows and pets and sometimes uses for pillows. Otherwise, I really don’t know. He hasn’t shown an aversion to any […]
Kender’s Match Form, page 2
Yesterday, I started work on Kender’s “Making a Good Match” form for 4 Paws. I’m posting the process of filling out the forms and making the video here for two reasons: 1) to keep me on track by reminding me to do something every day, and 2) to provide a forum for folks to offer […]