by Jolene | Feb 14, 2013 | Different Dream Series, Products
2012 Special Needs Valentine This year’s special needs Valentine treat isn’t chocolate, but it’s the next best thing for me. Different Dream Parenting: A Practical Guide to Raising a Child with Special Needs made the Special Needs Book...
by Jolene | Sep 28, 2012 | Books and Resources, Special Needs Parenting
Special needs financial planning is a topic most parents would like to ignore. But my research before writing Different Dream Parenting helped demystify the topic and convinced me of its importance. So when Friendship Circle of Michigan requested I become one of their...
by Jolene | Aug 13, 2012 | How-Tos, Special Needs Parenting
Hospital stays and children. The two do not make a winning combination, but in the special needs world, they get together more often than anyone likes. Maybe that’s why specialneeds.com asked me to write a guest post about how to prepare a child with a hospital...
by Jolene | May 29, 2012 | How Tos and Resources, Time Management/Organization
No, the above photo is not of me. But someone could have snapped a picture similar to it during my years as the parent of a child with special needs. More than once I felt as though I was losing my mind. Those years are indelibly imprinted in my memory. The purpose of...
by Jolene | May 4, 2012 | How Tos and Resources, Time Management/Organization
When I read Cheaper By the Dozen in junior high, I totally identified with the father’s desire to organize his saintly wife and children into an efficient, time-saving machine. However, he had much more success with his 12 kids than I ever did with my 2, but my...