by Candice Wilkinson | Feb 10, 2016 | Encouragement, Spiritual Support
How To Make It Through a Special Needs Storm Different Dream welcomes Candice Wilkinson as today’s guest blogger. Lately, she’s been experiencing some special needs storms as she cares for her child with special needs. In the process, she’s...
by Scott Newport | Feb 3, 2016 | Encouragement, Spiritual Support
Finding Joy Without a Lifetime Warranty Guest blogger Scott Newport and his wife Penni lost their son Evan Newport on Thanksgiving in 2009. That was the day they truly understood that kids who are medically fragile don’t come with a lifetime warranty. Six years...
by Maggi Gale | Jan 13, 2016 | Encouragement, Spiritual Support
Thankfulness for EA/TEF Awareness Month January is Esophageal Atresia/Tracheoesophageal Fistula (EA/TEF) Awareness Month. Because my son was born with this birth anomaly in 1982, Different Dream is raising awareness with Wednesday guest posts written by parents of...
by Jolene | Dec 31, 2015 | Encouragement, In Parents, PTSD
Top Ten Special Needs Posts of 2015 With 2015 swiftly drawing to a close, New Year’s Eve is a good time to take a look at DifferentDream.com’s top ten special needs posts of 2015. A look through this list gives a good idea of what’s been speaking to...
by Sheri Dacon | Dec 16, 2015 | Encouragement, Spiritual Support
No Room at the Inn: Special Needs Rejection Parents know the sting of special needs rejection. We experience it as parents when we are excluded because of our children. And we experience it even more painfully when our children are rejected. Guest blogger Sheri Dacon...
by Rebekah Benimoff | Dec 2, 2015 | Encouragement, Spiritual Support
When Special Needs Parenting Resists Resolution After watching a movie, guest blogger Rebekah Benimoff was slightly dissatisfied with its neatly wrapped up resolution. Today she shares how the film did and didn’t resonate with her special needs parenting life....