(1) How to take pills. Leaving aside the bad old days of a serious seizure disorder where he was on liquid medications, my kid is pretty darned healthy. He tends to have only two modes: perfectly well and too sick to get out of bed. However, being able to take pills is a pretty basic life skill, so I figured I better get around to it. We started, as people do with small kids, with small candies, and then moved to a multi-vitamin. It was surprisingly difficult to find out how big a particular multi-vitamin might be, since they all come in opaque cases, but with a little help from the people at Noah's, we bought a bottle of Platinum Naturals Easymulti multivitamins. They are gel pills, and quite narrow (though long). We added a regiment of taking them at breakfast, and picked up a cool pill dispenser at the dollar store that helps him keep track of whether or not he has taken it (like the one below, but with day names on the compartments). Now I feel a little better knowing that if he's prescribed an actual medication he will at least know how to swallow it.
(2) How to use a Presto card.
(3) How to ride in a WheelTrans vehicle (typically a cab) with different drivers and often different co-riders.
(4) How to wear sunglasses. One of his program gave some out to thank people for their volunteer work, and he absolutely loved them (he wears them over his regular glasses) and always checks the weather to see if he should wear them. (I got the eye doctor to check them out and make sure they were safe.) He looks just a little goofy in them, but who am I to judge? We keep our eye out for this particular model everywhere we go, in case he loses them, which would be a major issue.
(5) How to use a debit card: a skill that became particularly useful when the pandemic hit!
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