All the plans for a perfect delivery and a newborn baby can change in an instant with a premature delivery. Here is one mother’s experience and advice.
Categories: Family Support
Did you know that you can bring someone with you to your child’s Admission Review Dismissal (ARD) meeting? You don’t have to go alone. It can be very helpful to bring a friend.
Categories: Education & Schools
It would be nice to have a perfectly clean and orderly home. Having the time to be able to do that would be great. But our home has 2 more important things to take care of: our sons.
Categories: Family Support
As parents of a child with special health care needs, we often must learn little tricks to get things done. Some of these may seem obvious and some not, but they can be total game changers. Here are some tricks one parent has learned along the way.
Categories: Diagnosis & Health Care, Family Support
What is normal? Should we all strive to be normal or is normal overrated? Is your normal and my normal the same? This word causes so much stress in many of our lives. But when you really break it down, it’s almost laughable at how little this word even matters.
Categories: Family Support
Sometimes we have to decide that “no” is not the final answer. When our child is involved, sometimes you have to push a little bit harder to understand if “no” really means no!
Categories: Family Support
Sometimes the simple act of sharing your story with another parent can help in ways that you may not ever know.
Categories: Family Support
A boy finally discovers his way of helping.
Categories: Family Support
There are many well-meaning folks who try to help when you have a child with a disability. It is important to find out what kind of support you really need. Here is one parent’s story.
Categories: Family Support
Many schools support inclusion. But it’s up to parents to make it happen.
Categories: Education & Schools