by Jolene | Jun 26, 2023 | Different Dream, How-Tos, Special Needs Parenting
Empowering kids with disabilities isn’t always a serious business. The previous posts in this series about meeting our kids’ basic needs (Part 1: Survival, Part 2: Love and Belonging, Part 3: Power and Self-Worth, and Part 4: Freedom) may have led you to believe so....
by Kelly Simpson | May 31, 2023 | Different Dream, How-Tos, Special Needs Parenting
Raising babies with EA/TEF includes many feeding challenges. Finding tips about how to deal with those challenges can be hard to find. Thankfully a growing number of parents, like today’s guest blogger Kelly Simpson, are sharing what they have learned through trial...
by Jolene | May 22, 2023 | Different Dream, How-Tos, Special Needs Parenting
Empowering kids with disabilities, as the previous posts in this series have suggested, can be a challenge for caregivers. We have to make a paradigm shift from meeting all of our kids’ basic needs to equipping them to meet their own basic needs to the best of...
by Jennifer Forman | May 17, 2023 | Different Dream, How-Tos, Special Needs Parenting
Help for kids who experience food delays such as EA/TEF was nonexistent when our son was born in 1982. Imagine my surprise when I read Jennifer Forman’s guest post and discovered that, all these years later, not much has changed. At least not until Jennifer used her...
by Jolene | Apr 24, 2023 | Different Dream, How-Tos, Special Needs Parenting
Empowering kids with disabilities doesn’t come naturally to most parents. Most of us spend a considerable time adjusting to unexpected parenting duties after our children are diagnosed. We struggle with our roles as long-term advocates and caregivers. We fight...
by Jolene | Mar 27, 2023 | Different Dream, How-Tos, Special Needs Parenting
Empowering kids with disabilities is essential for their present and future well-being. Unfortunately, as I mentioned in the first post in this series, empowering our kids is rarely our first priority as parents when our medically fragile kids are fighting for their...
