Special Needs Parenting
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Primary Immune Deficiency Disease: Parenting a Child with PIDD
It’s not because I’m terrified of germs. It’s because I’ve spent too many hours in the emergency room, too many nights in the hospital, too many days sitting in surgery waiting rooms, too…
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Our Journey with Tube-Feeding: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Feeding a child through a feeding tube requires a lot of time, dedication, patience, trial and error, and plain old mothering instinct. There are good sides (yes, good!) to tube-feeding and bad sides…
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Understanding the Financial Needs of a Special Needs Family (and how YOU can help!)
One of the most difficult aspects our family and all families with special needs children must face is the financial impact of the care our children need and deserve. I am often asked…
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Life as a special needs dad (when you have anxiety)
It's hard to think about what kind of boy and man he will grow up to be because of some of the struggles he has, like his sensory issues. It's another thing to…
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Embracing My Son’s Autism: A Dad’s Perspective
When our son Jack was born in 2009, it seemed like a natural thing that he would grow up to enjoy many of the same things that I had as a boy and…
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Growing up with a Sibling with Down Syndrome {A Sister’s Perspective}
From a sibling’s perspective of growing up with someone with special needs: I would have it no other way.
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Making a Way in the Wilderness: Marriage and Special Needs
As parents of a child with special needs, we are wandering in the wilderness. We are thirsting in the desert. But through both arguments and tears, laughter and joy we can walk together…
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5 Ways Our Special Needs Child Strengthened Our Marriage (and How We Stayed Together)
Both my husband and I would agree our faith was much shallower before we had a child with special needs. The Bible talks repeatedly about the reason for trials and tribulations in the…
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What Special Needs Family Life is Really Like: An Overview
The greatest need that the special needs family has is recognition of the fact that they are first and foremost, "normal" people, just like you.
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31 Days of Supporting the Special Needs Family
The Story Behind this Special Needs Series The story of this series begins five years ago. Kathryn, Sara, and I were young military wives who had met online. We were expecting our first babies – all…
