by Karena Skibinski | Jan 8, 2025 | How-Tos, School/Education, Special Needs Parenting
How Can an EA/TEF Parent’s Anxiety Be Held in Check Before their Child Starts School? How can an EA/TEF parent’s anxiety be held in check before their child starts school? Karena Skibinski began asking herself that question several months before her son started...
by Lisa Pelissier | Aug 7, 2024 | School/Education, Special Needs Parenting
Special Needs Homeschooling: The Ups and Downs Special needs homeschooling is full of ups…and downs. Guest blogger Lisa Pelissier knows this from experience. In this post she describes her adventures in homeschooling, which began long before she discovered she had...
by Lisa Pelissier | Sep 13, 2023 | Encouragement, School/Education, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Support
Fighting Weariness at the Start of the School Year Fighting weariness as a new special needs homeschool year begins makes the whole endeavor feel impossible. That sensation is dragging down guest blogger Lisa Pelissier as she helps her daughters deal with unexpected...
by Kristin Faith Evans | Aug 23, 2023 | Grief, How-Tos, School/Education, Special Needs Parenting
Managing Mixed Emotions When Our Kids with Disabilities Go Back to School Managing mixed emotions when our kids with mixed emotions go back to school can be, well, emotional. Guest blogger Kristin Faith Evans is experiencing a wide gambit of those emotions this August...
by Maggi Gale | Aug 16, 2023 | How-Tos, School/Education, Special Needs Parenting
How Much Is Too Much to Tell Teachers about my Child’s Disability? How much is too much to tell teachers about my child’s disability? Maggie Gale, today’s guest blogger and mom to a daughter with medical special needs, asked that question at the start of every school...
by Lisa Pelissier | May 4, 2022 | How-Tos, School/Education, Special Needs Parenting
Parenting in Light of Neurodiversity Parenting in light of neurodiversity often occurs through trial and error. Today, Lisa Pelissier describes tips she’s learned while trial-and-error parenting her son who has high functioning autism. My son has high functioning...
