Special Needs Mothers: What We Need

The title says it all…we are the very product of the lives we have lived and are living with our special needs children….for example:

Instead of rejoicing at milestones naturally achieved, we watched our children struggle to make these goals and sometimes not achieve them at all.

While other families attended football games or birthday parties, we would dissect into the smallest bits, just exactly how that game or party could play out, so we could decide if our special needs child could handle it. Continue reading

Pictures and The Truth

I just got off a website for a mom who blogs about SPD and her daughter… sounds familiar but no it was not mine! But as I read the entry then took a look at the picture of her child, I like many would see just a beautiful child who appears to be a typical child. I don’t know why this one picture made me feel like writing about this topic but it did. The child in the picture had a great hat on and a huge smile…pretty typical right? But for those of us who have children who appear to be typical in their outward appearance, the disorders they have don’t show themselves right away, know how hard it is in this world.

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