No Judgement

You know...it's easy to be judgmental when you're on the outside looking in.  Take my opinion on pacifiers.  My thought has always been, when they're old enough to walk they should use pacifiers only for bed time.  I would have my own judgmental monologue as I passed an older child walking around a store with a binky in there mouth.  Enter Mason.  This kid can ONLY function at times with the pacifier. He is in such a sensory upheaval right now, that at times, especially in public, his only way to cope is the binky.  We have a chew stick and he will tolerate it but the binky is his best friend. 
It didn't start out that way.  My two other kiddos lost the binky at about a year old.  It went away when they had a cold and were unable to suck and breath at the same time they went away.  This worked for them.  I seriously question if Mason would choose  breathing over sucking. 

Sleep can be another judgmental topic. 
Whether children should be allowed in their parents bed. 
Whether you should stay with them till they fall asleep.
Noise/no noise

We have been through it all with this kiddo.  Our latest adventure with sleeping is unlatching Dylan's bunk beds to make one giant bed for both Mason &Dylan to sleep in. Dylan has been begging us to do this.  So today we made it happen.  We are worried it will disturb Dylan's sleep because Mason has been up no less then 12 times a night in the last week, but it will go along way in thickening their bond.  Dylan wants so bad for Mason to like him.  Mason is working on so much of his own stuff that he really can't be bothered. So we are praying for some glimmer of sleep hope. So pray with us won't you, for sleep, bonds, and no judgment.