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....
by Heather Braucher | Nov 2, 2022 | How-Tos, Special Needs Parenting
Caregiving Spouses Are FOR Each Other Caregiving spouses are FOR each other in a marriage. That’s Heather Braucher’s message in the third post in her Different Dream guest series. You’re going to love what she has to say about the power of caregiving parents being FOR...
by Jolene | Oct 24, 2022 | Encouragement, How-Tos
How to Organically Enter into Life with a Caregiving Family How to organically enter into life with a caregiving family has been on my mind since September when my dear Aunt Donna died. Since then memories of how she, her husband Jim, and their four children embraced...
