Toby Price

And I didn't know it at the time, but they were shaping the type of teacher I would become, but most importantly, the type of parent I would become later on.

Fast forward about seven or eight years in time, and I have one, two, three kids now.

My two oldest are autistic.

They were diagnosed at an early age.

My oldest is nonverbal.

My son, my middle child, he's a little more verbal.

We weren't planning on having a third.

And I asked God, you're giving us a third child.

Give me one that can talk, God.

And he said, all right, watch this.

And we always tell folks she was four going on 40.

And I was going to do with them the same thing that my dad did with me.

And I was going to share some of my favorite books with them.

So with my son, we got out the Spider-Man comics and he loved Wonder Woman.

Hmm.

With my youngest, she was a reader.

I got out Harry Potter and she loved reading about the Titanic and World War II and nonfiction.

We did find some books that we really enjoyed together.

I had heard about a book on Twitter where I talked to a bunch of my teacher friends and it was called I Need a New Butt by Don McMillan.

It was a picture book for kids and I found a copy at the local Walmart and I read it to my kids and they loved it.