by Jolene | Feb 14, 2019 | How-Tos, Special Needs Parenting
4 Strategies to Create a Sense of Control for Kids with Special Needs A sense of control is essential to kids. My grandson, who will soon turn 4 and beginning to outgrow daily napping, demonstrated his need for control this afternoon. His mother announced it was nap...
by Lillian Flakes | Feb 13, 2019 | How-Tos, Special Needs Parenting
The Three Friends Every Caregiver Needs Do you know what friends every caregiver needs? Today’s guest blogger and special needs mom Lillian Flakes discovered the ones she needed at the beginning of her parenting journey. Today she describes the three friends...
by Rachel Olstad | Feb 6, 2019 | Self-Care and Stress
How Wheel of Fortune Changed Our Lives…Really! Wheel of Fortune transformed life in public for guest blogger Rachel Olstad and her family. Today she tells the amazing, delightful, and funny story of how it happened. Our son has spina bifida and is a wheelchair...
by Kristen Horton | Jan 31, 2019 | Advocacy, Special Needs Parenting
Our Expected but Blessed EA/TEF Journey: A Year Later Our Expected but Blessed EA/TEF Journey is guest blogger Kristen Horton’s follow up to Our Unexpected but Blessed EA/TEF Journey which she wrote for EA/TEF Awareness Month in 2018. Please welcome Kristen back...
by Jolene | Jan 28, 2019 | Self-Care and Stress, Special Needs Parenting
My Special Needs Mom Worries Never End Of course not, you may have thought to yourself after reading the title of this post. My special needs mom worries never end either. But there’s a difference between your special needs mom worries and mine. You are most...
by Jen Cheney | Jan 17, 2019 | Encouragement, Special Needs Parenting
An Esophageal Atresia Story: Jack’s Journey An esophageal atresia story was not when Jen Cheney and her husband Will expected when they learned they would soon be a family of 3. For EA/TEF Awareness Month, 2019 Jen shares about what life has been like for them...
