Miss Shannon opens the video from her kitchen in Minnesota, lists her word-related jobs, and introduces herself as a proud parent of a child on the autism spectrum. She explains the purpose of her regular series, Comedy Through the Chaos.
Miss Shannon opens the video from her kitchen in Minnesota, lists her word-related jobs, and introduces herself as a proud parent of a child on the autism spectrum. She explains the purpose of her regular series, Comedy Through the Chaos.
She frames the episode as a continuation of the conversation about small wins, explains a scheduling change due to a conference, and describes the start of her child's summer school/camp experience, including an emotional first day and a smoother second day.
Shannon explains how she manages expectations by setting two concrete goals—arriving to camp regulated and increasing independence with school transportation—and describes deciding to have her child take the bus home every day, which resulted in a successful transition. This section focuses on practical, achievable measures of success.
She emphasizes setting reasonable, slightly challenging goals that still count as real victories and encourages viewers to look for those kinds of successes over the coming week. Shannon shares feeling more at peace this summer and pride in the progress they’ve made.
Shannon mentions making cheeseburgers for the morning, invites viewers to return for the next live session, thanks the community, and closes with a supportive sign-off reminding viewers that a bad day is not their fault.
Hey, everybody. Happy Saturday. If you happen to be joining me on a Saturday, happy whatever day it is, wherever you are here in the cadre sphere. I am Miss Shannon, joining you from my kitchen here in Minnesota. By trade, I'm a variety of word related things, including a comedian, a corporate speaker, a voice actor, an event MC, and a benefit auctioneer. By passion, I am the proud parent. I'm an adorable kiddo who happens to High supports on the autism spectrum. And I'm happy to join you usually a couple of times a week for Comedy Through the Chaos, where we talk about a variety of things that we can champion as caregivers and parents with our kiddos.
Today, I thought I would continue the conversation of small wins. And as I said, I normally join you on Thursdays as well. But this Thursday, I was onsite doing a corporate conference. I was the MC for a conference for a local organization here in the Twin Cities that was doing a customer and partner appreciation event. So that was really encouraging to see how they are working with their partners to opt in and find ways to buy in with their particular methodology for the way that they move things forward for corporate.
and So the other thing that was happening with me personally over the last week is that last week was our first week of summer school or as I like to call it camp I Started that a couple of years ago Where yeah technically a summer school, but it's a different routine is maybe in the same building So I just was like this is camp you're doing different stuff buddy, so you're gonna go to camp and it's good for him and so in previous years He was obviously not excited about going He wasn't necessarily excited about going this year but he did start on Monday and he did well.
And so we had to hold off and not go on Monday because it was a big emotions day and by the time we got to Tuesday he was good. And what I've had to learn is that this is another opportunity for me to not just manage the way my kiddo and I interact but to manage my expectations. on what is success, because it does help to have things that are measurable. We do that, all of us, in a lot of different things. And so for me, what I decided that during this summer school slash camp experience for 2026, the goals that I had were two things.
For us to get to school most of the days very self-regulated. So if that means that we're there a little later than it was, because for some reason camp starts at 8 o'clock. in the summer for a bunch of teenagers. That's way too early as far as I'm concerned. 30, even though it only goes until 11, and we're regulated and he's receptive to instruction, even if he's just there and he's hanging out and not overly producing, because it is summer, even if he's not overly producing, that's the first thing that I'm measuring.
It's just how often are we able to get there and be regulated? You know, how often are we getting there and I'm not adrenally exhausted by the process of getting him there. So that's the first thing that we're looking at. And the second thing is something that's a little more tangible, but also a big deal for us is that the process of going to and from school slash camp over the last few years is I drop him off and I pick him up. Last year we started the process of him just taking school transportation home one day a week and I was originally trying to decide if it made most sense for me to incrementally add in days of how often he would take the school transportation home.
And then, oh funny, Maybe I've been talking to myself this whole time. I'll finish and then I'll restart. So what we were discussing is being able to figure out how many days a week we could take school transportation. And I decided that the best thing to do was to just go for it, pull the band-aid off and go, I take him every day. He takes the school transportation home. And he's done well. This whole week he pretty smoothly transitioned to taking school transportation all day. So that's a win.
So as you are building things trying to have those kind of tangible but very very reasonable expectations for you is what you'd like to do. Because sometimes just when we're setting goals for our kids, we want to make sure that we set ourselves with things that may feel like they're a little bit of a stretch, but they're also achievable and something that you can actually go, you know what, that counts as a win and I'm good with it. So I encourage you over the next week to look for those two things.
I'm ready to go into week two of camp. I feel the most at peace with this than I have in multiple summers, and I'm very proud of both of us to be in that position. So my plan for the rest of this morning, he has requested. I know that it is breakfast-ish time. He had requested cheeseburgers, so I'm in the process of making cheeseburgers right now. So hopefully you are in the process of doing what you need to do to make sure that you are comfortable throughout this day and this experience. I do hope to see you back here on Thursday at 2pm Central.
I'm always excited and encouraged to be part of this Cadre Sphere. So thank you for letting me be part of your day. I will see you back here soon. And as I always like to remind you, I hope that the day treats you well. If it doesn't, shame on it, not shame on you. I'll see you back here soon.
