Special Mom’s on Mother’s Day
They love unconditionally, they encourage, support and guide us through life and are always there to pick us up when we fall, or to wipe away tears when that boy or girl breaks our hearts for the first...
View ArticleHelping Children with Special Needs Through Divorce
Divorce is never easy in any family but in a special needs family it can be even harder. Divorce among special needs families is from what I have researched above average in fact the divorce rate by...
View ArticleSpecial Needs Parents Are Not Meant To Be Carefree – A Letter from Me
To Whom May Question Whom I Am To Be, It’s the difference between men and women… maybe? The difference between Moms and Dads… the difference between what we think of, what guides us, what drives us to...
View ArticleMisunderstood – When Child Protective Services is Called
My phone rang late one afternoon, the voice on the other end breathless and worried, “Cheryl I need you to come talk to the police, they are calling CPS on Kate again, some neighbor saw Mark outside...
View ArticleOld Me, New Me • How Special Needs Shapes You
I was serving for the match…I can feel the heat of the court. I can feel the adrenaline. I can almost feel the racquet in my hand. I win the match. It was a great time of my life, it is a great...
View ArticleWhere Have All The “Good” Dads Gone – Marriage and Special Needs
If you’ve ever read Laura Numeroff’s If You Give a Moose a Muffin, you probably immediately related to the boy in the story. The one who just wanted to be nice and share a muffin with a forest animal,...
View ArticleTurning Off the Blue Light for Alex Spourdalakis
In recent years the diagnosis of autism has skyrocketed. Children range from mildly effected with some stimming, sensory over load and issues in the area of speech and communication. This level...
View ArticleReassess a Father with Gentle Eyes
There were times I thought he was just too crabby. Not having a good outlook, too negative, refusing to see the good that can be within a family with significant special needs. There was a time when I...
View ArticlePerspective on When Special Needs Fathers Remain
“When Special Needs Dads Remain…” I chose to write about this because I thought it would easy. Simple. J’s dad has stayed in the picture, so I was going to write a few serious sentences about how not...
View ArticleThe-More-Than-Valentine’s-Day- Valentine
If you are like me, you woke up the day or two after Christmas deciding you needed to run to the store for something but when you enter the store, instead of being greeted by red and green and a major...
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