Weekly Web Round-Up: Week of April 5, 2013

Our favorite part of Friday, besides the weekend and two full days to spend with the family, is the Weekly Web Round-Up. And since it's beautiful outside, I hope you're reading this week's edition outside on your tablet, smartphone, or laptop—I know that if I had a laptop here, I'd be compiling this while sitting outside. This week we've included how one mother fought bullying on Instagram, photos of children with their most prized possession, a 9-year-old Socrates, and, in honor of Autism Awareness Month, a post about understanding autism.

My first instinct was to block all the girls who had posted the grids from my daughter's account.

But here's the thing.

These girls were friends of my daughter's who had been in my car, at my parties, in my house. They liked to dance, and sing camp songs and bake brownies. They weren't Heathers. Or Reginas. Or even Monas. And if you don't know who Mona is, you need to go watch an ep of PLL like, now.

These were good, sweet, funny girls who I knew and who I liked. ...

And so instead of banishing the girls, I did this:

I sat in a popular restaurant chain and watched an 8 year old boy have a major meltdown at his table.  His mother cringed as lunch time patrons stared.  An irritated couple at a nearby booth got up and moved, but only after glaring at the mother.  I’ll be honest, the child was upsetting my lunch too, but one thing I suspected was that this child had autism.  He appeared to be just like any other child, but the intensity of his outburst was out of proportion to the issue he was yelling about: The waiter had served him waffle fries and he had expected “skinny fries” just like the french fries served at home.