Welcome to another Try This Tuesday. For details on how to participate, please check out the welcome post. If you’d like to join in but aren’t sure what to write about, try the topic suggestion for this week: Disciplining Your Child. The person who suggested this topic specifically asked about the teenage years, so if…
Coddling a child with special needs: Do we sometimes overdo it?
This weekend, my kids had their usual car fight. Again and again and again. Max wanted to sit in his little sister’s car seat (yes, it’s very cute, his is just plain blue) every time we went out. Given that he and Sabrina are about the same weight, it is not a safety issue. It…
The Long and Winding Road
A Guest Post by Natalie: When our youngest daughter, Mandy, was diagnosed with Neurofibromatosis Type 1, I was completely blindsided. I had never heard of this absurdly long word with too many vowels. I promptly came home and obsessively played Dr Google, looking for anything I could find to help me understand what must surely…
Zebra Mix Winner
The Winner of our Zebra Mix Giveaway is: #79 Janet F! Janet, you are going to absolutely LOVE these.
Heartprints
We stood at the kitchen island. She was in the learning tower, “mixing.” I was next to her. I think I was making a pie. We worked silently for a while, with breaks for instruction or laughter. I’m pretty sure we both had our hair pulled back. It was Saturday. I looked over at my…
Planning a Camping Trip With Reflux, a G-Tube and Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome…
Why, you ask? Because I woke up one morning and said to myself, “Self — Your life is disturbingly deficient in chaos at the moment… I know! Let’s plan a summer camping trip! You know — hours upon hours of gluten-free menu planning, tube-feeds without running water, barf bags, taking that ten-mile drive back into…
A Rain Man Moment
The movie RAIN MAN was released the same week that my husband and I took our three-year-old son Matthew for an evaluation with a child psychologist. He’d stopped talking and was obsessed with lights and wheels, and we were trying to figure out what it was and what we should do. The child psychologist mentioned…
On waiting…
Ivy’s sleep study went okay. She was wired up and sent off to sleep, monitored by the machines and recorded on the camera. At 5:30 am we were woken by an abrupt nurse with a stern face. Vague questions about typical sleep patterns and snoring ensued as she pulled the wires from her skin. No,…
The Book Of Rare Diseases
Carrie will be a regular contributor here at 5MFSN. Look for her future posts on Sundays. There are hundreds of books that guide you on how to be a good parent. Each book has a different spin on our job, but the majority of them assume a certain path of development for our child. So…
A Profound Truth
My friend Lynnette sent me something last week that she found on the Internet. I’m on the Internet A LOT but had not seen this particular story. I liked it so much that I have decided to share it here also. Enjoy, and always remember to not listen to those that would try to hold…