by Scott Newport | Aug 24, 2012 | Grief, Spiritual Support
Redwood, summer camp, and love notes don’t have anything in common. Unless you’re guest blogger and carpenter Scott Newport. Today, he shares the story of how he used salvaged redwood to stay close to his son Noah, who was at summer camp, and how...
by Scott Newport | Aug 5, 2012 | Grief, Spiritual Support
Grief and loss are emotions experienced daily by parents of kids with special needs. Those emotions can be difficult to share with parents whose kids are healthy and typical. Maybe that’s why parents like us bond deeply and find hope in our relationships with...
by Jolene | Jul 24, 2012 | Grief, Spiritual Support
Guest blogger Scott Newport belongs to a club no parent wants to join – the Bereaved Parents Club. In observance of the month, Scott sent this post and a poem to share with you. Garden of Grief by Scott Newport Did you know July is Bereaved Parents Month? Yeah,...
by Jolene | Jun 22, 2012 | Advocacy, Special Needs Parenting
Hello readers, and welcome back to Part 3 of the interview with special needs dad Matt McNeil. In our final session together, Matt shares how his family stays involved with the special needs community. And he talks about his young adult novel, The Strange Tale of Ben...
by Jolene | Jun 21, 2012 | Advocacy, Special Needs Parenting
Welcome back to Different Dream for Part 2 of our interview with special needs dad Matt McNeil. Matt and his wife Shannon are the parents of Waverly and Oliver who live with MPS III, a terminal special needs diagnosis. In Part 1 of Matt’s interview, he gave the...
