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 Jolene | Aug 17, 2012 | School/Education, Special Needs Parenting
A meet the teacher pre-meeting can be an excellent way to ease the anxiety a child with special needs experiences before the start of a new school year. Guest blogger, Ellen Stumbo, offers some useful advice about how to arrange such a meeting, what points to cover,...
by Jolene | Aug 14, 2012 | School/Education, Special Needs Parenting
Homework has a way of slowly burying kids with special needs as the school year progresses. Thankfully, before that can happen this year, new Different Dream guest blogger Esther Leung offers 8 tips to make doing schoolwork at home enjoyable for both child and parent....
by Jolene | Aug 9, 2012 | Self-Care and Stress, Special Needs Parenting
Survivor guilt. Yesterday, guest blogger Kathy Guzzo defined it and described her experiences with it in Part 1 of Survivor Guilt and Parents of Kids with Special Needs. Today in Part 2, she explains the negative effects of survivor guilt and how she moved from guilt...
by Jolene | Aug 8, 2012 | Self-Care and Stress, Special Needs Parenting
Survivor guilt. I first experienced it when we walked out of NICU with our baby son. He’d made a textbook perfect recovery, unlike other babies in the unit whose prognoses was grim. Guest blogger Kathy Guzzo also experienced survivor guilt while parenting...