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...
by Kelly Simpson | Jan 17, 2023 | Encouragement, How-Tos, Special Needs Parenting
When Life Turns Out Differently Than You Had Planned When life turns out differently than you had planned, the first reaction may be fear or anger. Or a sense of being overwhelmed. Four years ago, guest blogger Kelly Simpson was completely overwhelmed when her husband...
by Jolene | Nov 10, 2022 | How-Tos, Special Needs Parenting
Organizational Strategies Are Saving My Life Right Now Organizational strategies are saving my life right now, and my 94-year-old mother is the reason. Our family is in a season similar to the early 1980s when my husband and I were parenting a medically fragile baby....
