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 Mark Arnold | Jun 21, 2023 | Holidays, Special Needs Parenting
What Does a Happy Birthday Look Like? What does it look like for a child or adult with a disability or special need? Guest blogger Mark Arnold answers that question today in this story about how he and his family created a happy birthday for their son, Mark. He hopes...
by Sandy Ramsey-Trayvick | Jun 14, 2023 | Encouragement, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Support
Be Encouraged, Special Needs Parent. God has a Word for You. Be encouraged, special needs parent! Guest blogger and special needs parent Sandy Ramsey-Trayvick is here again. In this post she shares words God has used to encourage her as she cares for her son with...
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...
by Jennifer Forman | May 17, 2023 | How-Tos, Special Needs Parenting
Help for Parents of Kids Who Experience Food Delays Help for kids who experience food delays such as EA/TEF was nonexistent when our son was born in 1982. Imagine my surprise when I read Jennifer Forman’s guest post and discovered that, all these years later, not...