How do you deal with stress? It’s obvious that most parents of kids with special needs deal with more stress than the average parent. But how you deal with it can make all the difference in the world. Internalizing it? BAD. Finding a healthy way to release it? GOOD. How do I deal with stress?…
Monthly Archives: February 2011
If We Build It…
Tying in with last week’s playground challenge, I thought I’d take a moment to tell you about a project I’ve been involved with since last September. This is a “to be continued…” post since the project is not complete yet, but I wanted to get started on the story. A friend of ours is an…
Special Exposure Wednesday: Football (or not)!
We’re not big on football around here. The only nod it got from us was the jersey, albeit the wrong team, and the chicken nuggets (of course!) Got something to share? Grab the Special Exposure Wednesday button for your post! Sorry for the late post. Tiff is taking a leave for a while. We’re trying…
More Sex Talk
Today we continue our conversation from last week regarding sexuality and special needs adults. This installment will covers “having the talk” and “safe sex and contraception”. Even if your child is young, this is information that you should want to know as a special needs parent or guardian.
What Do You Do “Just In Case”?
I’m getting ready to take a trip. Before you start dreaming of vacations in far off sunny places, it’s not that. It’s an overnight trip, rushing a visit that would be unthinkable not to take, to pay respects. Yet, as I ready for this, ready for the week, looking forward in our family calendar to…
The thing that scares me more than anything
Today’s post is hard to share, because it’s about something that happened here, on this site, last week. We all deal with judgment from outsiders as parents of special needs kids, but judgment from one of our own – from another parent facing those same hurts – brings up a whole new set of fears…
Take time for…Me?
What does the phrase above even mean?! While I was still pregnant with Lauren, mothers a few times over always offered this gem of advice “Take time for you”. Ok. I get that. I was a person before I became a mother, makes sense. After Lauren was born, I wondered if those people telling me…
The Back Story
When I was pregnant with Precious, my third child, I was enormous really early. I couldn’t feel the baby move much and my abdomen was rather tight. I was getting an unusual amount of Braxton-Hicks contractions. I was being seen by the midwives for the second time, after having a very pleasant experience giving birth…
A School Day or Sick Day?
Send ’em? Keep ’em home? Send ’em? Keep ’em home? You recite the words over and over again as you pluck the petals from the cut flowers sitting in the vase? (LOL, there’s a luxury I don’t enjoy often!) Eeny, Meany, Miney Moe? Paper, Scissors, Rock? Or with the flip of a coin? How do…