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The Waiting Room: Now

Ten years ago I was a much different Mom sitting in this waiting room.  Now, seasoned beyond my wildest dreams, I have sat in more waiting rooms than I care to count.  The Rehabilitation Institute of ...

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Caregivers for Special Needs

There is always so much talk about how Mom’s need to care for themselves so that they are able to care for their children.  When you Google “Secrets of a Happy Mom” you come up with everything ranging...

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What a simple Spring Break trip did for this Mom

My family recently traveled for Spring Break – for a lot of reasons other than just “because everyone else does it.”  I felt we needed a drastic change of scenery.  We have been on a hamster wheel for...

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Do Special Needs Parents Ever Get A Day Off?

I want to take a day off, I really do.  I want to sit back on the couch, relax, basically just not get up for awhile.  I want to be able to rest and do nothing, and to be ok with that.   But for some ...

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The Super Hero Flexibility Of The Special Needs Parent

I would not say I am a particularly flexible person, in the physical sense.  Can’t quite remember my last back bend or splits – but it was definitely sometime in my early childhood.  Yet, people are a...

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Please Stop Learning At My Daughter's Expense

The first day of summer or the first day of camp are supposed to be exciting and memorable and calm.

But sometimes things don’t work out and it doesn’t go your way or the way you thought it should pl...

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