by Jolene | Aug 9, 2012 | Self-Care and Stress, Special Needs Parenting
Survivor guilt. Yesterday, guest blogger Kathy Guzzo defined it and described her experiences with it in Part 1 of Survivor Guilt and Parents of Kids with Special Needs. Today in Part 2, she explains the negative effects of survivor guilt and how she moved from guilt...
by Jolene | Aug 8, 2012 | Self-Care and Stress, Special Needs Parenting
Survivor guilt. I first experienced it when we walked out of NICU with our baby son. He’d made a textbook perfect recovery, unlike other babies in the unit whose prognoses was grim. Guest blogger Kathy Guzzo also experienced survivor guilt while parenting...
by Jolene | Jul 17, 2012 | Self-Care and Stress, Special Needs Parenting
Okay, moms of kids with special needs, do you sense a disconnect between what you need from your friends and what your friends think you need? Then you are going to love guest blogger Gillian Marchenko’s post today. You may think she’s been spying...
by Jolene | Jun 29, 2012 | Self-Care and Stress, Special Needs Parenting
One year ago today Julie Keon first published What I Would Tell You. Her moving essay is directed to a mom she saw in the waiting room at the doctor’s office. The mom of an infant with special needs. A mom in the same position Julie had been in 7 1/2 years...
by Jolene | Jun 4, 2012 | Self-Care and Stress, Special Needs Parenting
Have you ever gone speechless when a friend asks what she can do to help ease your special needs parenting load? Speechless not because you can’t think of a way to help, but because the list is so long you don’t know what to suggest? Speechless because...
by Jolene | May 23, 2012 | Self-Care and Stress, Special Needs Parenting
Many parents of kids with special needs don’t like to discuss milestones, because their children’s progress is slow and small. So they celebrate inchstones instead. Sometimes, when their kids do achieve a milestone, the parents aren’t quite sure how...