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...
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 Valeria Conshafter | May 3, 2023 | Encouragement, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Support
I Am the Best Mom in The World “I am the best mom in the world,” asserts guest blogger Valeria Conshafter. In today’s post she explains why she’s the best mom in the world for her daughter who was born with a life-threatening birth condition. As Mother’s Day...
by Jolene | Apr 24, 2023 | How-Tos, Special Needs Parenting
Empowering Kids with Disabilities, Part 3: Power and Self-Worth Empowering kids with disabilities doesn’t come naturally to most parents. Most of us spend a considerable time adjusting to unexpected parenting duties after our children are diagnosed. We struggle...
