by Valeria Conshafter | Oct 18, 2023 | Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Support
Fear versus Faith Fear versus faith is a distinction guest blogger Valeria Conshafter discovered while raising a daughter with a life-threatening birth condition. In this post she explains how parents raising kids with disabilities can tell the difference between fear...
by Jolene | May 10, 2023 | Encouragement, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Support
It’s Going to Be a Different Kind of Mother’s Day It’s going to be a different kind of Mother’s Day for you this year. God whispered those words to me as I waddled into the doctor’s office in early May of 1982. Never mind that my husband and I wouldn’t see our first...
by Kelly Simpson | Mar 15, 2023 | Encouragement, How-Tos, Special Needs Parenting
I Press On I press on is all a special needs parent can do sometimes. Guest blogger Kelly Simpson returns to talk about what she’s learned about pressing on while raising a child with special needs. She ends with some great ideas to help you press on during hard...
by Jolene | Feb 8, 2023 | Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Support
The Days Are Long, but the Years Are Short “The days are long, but the years are short.” I repeat this phrase while I sit on the couch listening to my 7-year-old grandson read for a half hour every evening. Each time he turns a page, he says something like, “Wow,...
by Jolene | Jan 23, 2023 | Encouragement, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Support
Raising a Child with Special Needs is Like Writing a Book “Raising a child with special needs is like writing a book,” I thought after emailing my completed manuscript to my editor recently. “During my pregnancy I had a vague outline of what...