by Kristin Faith Evans | Aug 23, 2023 | Grief, How-Tos, School/Education, Special Needs Parenting
Managing Mixed Emotions When Our Kids with Disabilities Go Back to School Managing mixed emotions when our kids with mixed emotions go back to school can be, well, emotional. Guest blogger Kristin Faith Evans is experiencing a wide gambit of those emotions this August...
by Maggi Gale | Aug 16, 2023 | How-Tos, School/Education, Special Needs Parenting
How Much Is Too Much to Tell Teachers about my Child’s Disability? How much is too much to tell teachers about my child’s disability? Maggie Gale, today’s guest blogger and mom to a daughter with medical special needs, asked that question at the start of every school...
by Lisa Pelissier | Jul 26, 2023 | Holidays, How-Tos, Special Needs Parenting
The Invasion of the Red Dye 40 Brain Snatchers The invasion of the Red Dye 40 brain snatchers wreaked havoc at Lisa Pelissier’s house not too long ago. In this post, written after she snatched her brain back, she shares how artificial dyes can affect children with...
by Jolene | Jun 26, 2023 | How-Tos, Special Needs Parenting
Empowering Kids with Disabilities, Part Five: Fun! Empowering kids with disabilities isn’t always a serious business. The previous posts in this series about meeting our kids’ basic needs (Part 1: Survival, Part 2: Love and Belonging, Part 3: Power and...
by Kelly Simpson | May 31, 2023 | How-Tos, Special Needs Parenting
Raising Babies with EA/TEF or Other Feeding Issues Raising babies with EA/TEF includes many feeding challenges. Finding tips about how to deal with those challenges can be hard to find. Thankfully a growing number of parents, like today’s guest blogger Kelly Simpson,...
by Jolene | May 22, 2023 | How-Tos, Special Needs Parenting
Empowering Kids with Disabilities, Part Four: Freedom Empowering kids with disabilities, as the previous posts in this series have suggested, can be a challenge for caregivers. We have to make a paradigm shift from meeting all of our kids’ basic needs to...