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What Is Normal?
Comparing my life to friends with neuro typical kids was killing me with seeing everything that T couldn't do, while comparing my life to those with greater challenges made me feel like I…
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Community in the Midst of Special Needs
What if in building your walls of protection and barricading hearts you shut out the ones who just might actually want to stay? Community is a two way street. If you don’t let…
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Special Needs Moms: Are You Special or Just Like Other Moms?
It all starts with finding common ground. Every mom has a similar experience, a similar set of responsibilities, joys, fears, hopes, and frustrations. Special needs moms have a few complications, sometimes a lot.…
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Bridging the Gap
Bridging the gap is going to take work on both sides. We have to acknowledge that this parenting thing is hard sometimes, whether you have a child with special needs or not. We…
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Special needs and community: how walls are built
Before bridges can be built, walls must be torn down. And before walls can be torn down, walls must be understood.
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Shea’s Story {on being a single special needs mom}
Being a single mom to two young children, one of whom has special needs doesn't, make me a super mom. It's simply all I've ever known, and I'm just a mom doing what…
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The Challenges and Blessings of Parenting Special Needs Children with a Chronic Condition
So many people say I must be a "super mom," but I don't feel that way at all. Is it hard to find the blessings in the challenges? Absolutely! With God's help, though,…
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In His Hands {4 lessons learned from adopting older special needs children}
These are 4 things that I did not know before adopting Zhang Zhou, Wang Xue, Ji Rong or Zeng Shu. Our children were adopted at 3, 12, 6 and 12 respectively, from 2001…
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Ezra’s Story: from “typical” to a behavioral diagnosis
I've written this, my story - my son's story - for all the moms out there who are in this awkward state of quasi-"special needs" but have no real claim to the title.…
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Encouragement for the Pregnant Special Needs Mom
And that power will pull you through the difficult times when you are carrying life inside you and carrying a special one in your arms.
