"The Secret Lives Of Kids: Or, My Time Spent with Class Bullies, SPED Students, and the Most Splendid Group of Kids in the World" is a chronicle of six months spent first as a glorified babysitter/proxy grandfather of neurotypical 1st and 2nd graders and then as a "behavioral technician" of developmentally disabled (mostly autistic) children. Shannon ("Grandpa" to many of the kids he came to dearly love and who loved him in return) reveals the often funny and sometimes surprising things that occurred in 17 classrooms at ten schools in Monterey, Seaside, and Marina, California during the 2024/2025 school year.