Explain why your family might have different rules, and why they are important. Non-autistic children might not intuitively realize why some things are upsetting or painful to an autistic family member, so it's important for you to explain.  For example, "Because Mommy is autistic, loud noises can hurt her when she is stressed. When this happens, she'll go to her room to relax. If Mommy is in her room, it's important to leave her alone, so she can feel better faster." Encourage all children to set boundaries like "I don't want to be touched" or "I need quiet time." It's essential for autistic children to know how to assert themselves, and non-autistic children could also benefit from this skill (and learn to take the autistic family member seriously). Non-autistic children may get frustrated or jealous if their autistic sibling does not have to help as much with chores. If they get upset, explain why this happens.  Emphasize that chores are based on ability, not age. It may take a lot of effort for an autistic child to do chores, so it's normal for them to have less or none at all. Explain to your other children that therapy is work, and is different from play. For example, "I know it looks like your sister's just playing, but it's actually quite hard for her. She's trying to learn certain skills that do not come easy to her. This is a chore for her, just like you have to clean your room. It's just different." Always reassure your autistic child that they are important. Remind them that being a family member isn't dependent on doing certain things, and that the child contributes in their own, important way. This can be difficult sometimes. Autistic children may often need special attention. Make sure to share your time as equally as possible. Provide positive one-on-one time with all of your children.  Make a habit of giving small gestures of affection to all your children. Say things like, "I'm really proud of you" and "You did a great job on that assignment." When you have the time, spend one-on-one time with each of your children, especially ones who haven't gotten as much attention from you lately. This can sometimes be hard to schedule, but try to get in some one-on-one time a few times per week. Autistic children might fear being a burden, or worry that they aren't good enough. This can especially be a problem if everyone is focusing on their flaws. Avoid making your child's current inabilities into a big deal, and work on their strengths as well as their weaknesses.  Don't make a big deal out of your child's needs. If your child can't handle something, calmly offer an alternative. This way, they're less likely to feel guilty for being disabled. Consider whether your child has any one-on-one time that isn't taken up by therapy goals. Are you ever having fun with them, or is every interaction spent working on something? Give your child free time to just play, without being pushed to meet predefined goals. They should be able to enjoy childhood too. (And you don't need to spend the next decade transporting your child between therapies. You also can relax.) Encourage your child to develop their strengths and special interests. Your non-autistic children may sometimes be frustrated or confused. They may feel their sibling gets more attention. Reassure them regularly they are valued, but have different needs. Say something like, "We love you all the same. Lucy sometimes needs extra help when you don't. We help people when they need it, and Lucy often needs more." Some family activities may be off limits for an autistic family member. If loud noises bother your autistic loved one, for example, going to the movies can be stressful. Try to compromise and find activities everyone can enjoy. For example, if loud movie theaters frighten your autistic family member, home movie nights might be a lot more comfortable.
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One-sentence summary -- Make the ground rules clear. Explain differences in chores and expectations. Share your attention as equally as possible. Reassure your autistic child. Reassure your non-autistic children regularly. Find activities everyone can enjoy.


After two or three days, the eggs should hatch. However, the young fish, or fry, typically remain attached to the egg site for some time. If you notice the parents eating the eggs while you are waiting, consider moving the parents and following the instructions for raising discus without parents instead. Within a few days of hatching, the fry should detach and move to the parents' sides, where they feed from the parents' skin. You may increase the odds of the fry locating the parents by temporarily reducing the water levels to roughly 9 inches (25cm).  Discus strains with light coloring may be harder for the fry to locate. Remove the surface eggs were attached to, if the fry attempt to feed from it. Once the fry have been swimming freely for about four days, start supplementing their diet with a tiny amount of live baby brine shrimp four times a day.  Clean out dead shrimp if uneaten on the same day, in order to keep the water clean. If you cannot use live, frozen is acceptable. Use a medium slow bubble on the air stone to get the frozen baby brine shrimp moving around the aquarium, or the fry may not recognize it as food. Once the fry have reached six weeks of age, they can eat a greater variety of food. Try to feed them a wide variety of animal protein as well as vitamin-rich vegetables. Many discus breeders are willing to share their own recipe for "discus burger," which contains all these ingredients blended into a consistency that is easy for the small fish to eat. You may move the fry to a different tank at this age, away from the parents. This may be necessary to prevent overcrowding.
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One-sentence summary -- Watch for the eggs hatching. Reduce water levels before fry detach (optional). Feed with baby brine shrimp four or five days after the fry have been swimming. Change their diet after six weeks.


Just tap the Camera icon to open the app. It’s usually a circular icon found right next to the blue shutter button. After tapping this, more options will appear arranged in a semi-circular grid. This is usually at the leftmost side of the options grid. A notification will then appear: "HDR ON." Line up the subject in the center of the screen. You can also tap the screen to focus if the subject is blurry. The screen will glow slightly and a shutter sound will play, indicating that the picture was captured successfully.
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One-sentence summary -- Launch your camera app. Tap the Options icon. Tap on the HDR icon. Frame your shot. Press the blue shutter button to take the picture.


For simple animations, such as a flipbook, you can probably plan everything in your head, but for more complex work, you need to create a storyboard. A storyboard resembles an oversized comic strip, combining words and pictures to summarize the overall story or a given part of it. If your animation will use characters with complicated appearances, you'll also need to prepare model sheets showing how they appear in various poses and full-length. It usually isn't necessary, or cost-effective, to have every object in the story move in order to tell the story effectively.  This is called limited animation.  For a cartoon depicting Superman flying, you may want to show only the Man of Steel's cape flapping and clouds whizzing from the foreground into the background on an otherwise static sky. For an animated logo, you may want to have only the company name spin to call attention to it, and then for only a fixed number of times, so that people can read the name clearly. Limited animation in cartoons has the disadvantage of not looking particularly lifelike. For cartoons targeted to young children, this is not as much of a concern as in animated works intended for an older audience. Certain actions can be broken down into sequential renderings that can be re-used multiple times in an animation sequence. Such a sequence is called a loop. Actions that can be looped include the following:  Ball bouncing. Walking/running. Mouth movement (talking). Jumping rope. Wing/cape flapping.
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Plan out the story you want to animate. Decide what parts of your story need to be animated and what parts can remain static. Determine what parts of the animation you can do repetitively. You can find tutorials for some of these actions on the Angry Animator website at http://www.angryanimator.com/word/tutorials/.