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 | 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...
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...
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 27, 2023 | How-Tos, Special Needs Parenting
Empowering Kids with Disabilities, Part 1: Meet Basic Survival Needs Empowering kids with disabilities is important, right? I mean, parenting is about empowering and equipping our kids to self-advocate to the best of their abilities, right? And yet. If my experience...
