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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...
What Does a Happy Birthday Look Like?

What Does a Happy Birthday Look Like?

by Mark Arnold | Jun 21, 2023 | Holidays, Special Needs Parenting

What Does a Happy Birthday Look Like? What does it look like for a child or adult with a disability or special need? Guest blogger Mark Arnold answers that question today in this story about how he and his family created a happy birthday for their son, Mark. He hopes...
Be Encouraged, Special Needs Parent. God has a Word for You.

Be Encouraged, Special Needs Parent. God has a Word for You.

by Sandy Ramsey-Trayvick | Jun 14, 2023 | Encouragement, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Support

Be Encouraged, Special Needs Parent. God has a Word for You. Be encouraged, special needs parent! Guest blogger and special needs parent Sandy Ramsey-Trayvick is here again. In this post she shares words God has used to encourage her as she cares for her son with...
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...
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Jolene Philo is a published author, speaker, wife, and mother of a son with special needs.

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