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Empowering Kids with Disabilities, Part Five: Fun!

Empowering Kids with Disabilities, Part Five: Fun!

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...
Raising Babies with EA/TEF or Other Feeding Issues

Raising Babies with EA/TEF or Other Feeding Issues

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,...
Empowering Kids with Disabilities, Part Four: Freedom

Empowering Kids with Disabilities, Part Four: Freedom

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...
Help for Parents of Kids Who Experience Food Delays

Help for Parents of Kids Who Experience Food Delays

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...
Empowering Kids with Disabilities, Part 3: Power and Self-Worth

Empowering Kids with Disabilities, Part 3: Power and Self-Worth

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...
Empowering Kids with Disabilities, Part 2: The Need for Love and Belonging

Empowering Kids with Disabilities, Part 2: The Need for Love and Belonging

by Jolene | Mar 27, 2023 | How-Tos, Special Needs Parenting

Empowering Kids with Disabilities, Part 2: The Need for Love and Belonging Empowering kids with disabilities is essential for their present and future well-being. Unfortunately, as I mentioned in the first post in this series, empowering our kids is rarely our first...
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Jolene Philo is a published author, speaker, wife, and mother of a son with special needs.

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