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…
Treatment in the dentist office…
So sorry, this week has gotten away from me & I didn’t even realize it was Saturday! So I hope you like this I posted on our Blog Last June… ok, pet peeve so you may want to skip this post. It may seem like a tiny, small, insignificant to you but it urked me…
He Has Feelings Too
This was originally posted on my blog but I wanted to share it here. I am interested to see how many of you has experienced something similar to this. I am hoping not too many, but sadly, it’s more likely that you have encountered this in one form or another. A few weeks back, my…
liver and onions…
My life has drastically changed since Jack. Sure, I went through some heavy stuff post-diagnosis. My mental health went down the drain, I was pretty sure I hated all of the human race, and I was insanely jealous of people who had “typical” children. As time went on, I learned—slowly—that the secret to my success…
Just What is This “Normal” Stuff Anyways?
normal: adjective. conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural. In the Special World we constantly hear about “normal” benchmarks and “typically” developing children. Our children are often measured against the “normals” to get an idea or a glimpse into just how delayed they really are. I know the intent…