Welcome to Families Blossoming
Welcome To Families Blossoming
Welcome to Families Blossoming A place where you will be understood, supported, informed and challenged and a place where you can share, cry, vent and laugh. Most importantly, it is a place where you can - and will - grow, if you are open to it. Does any of the following sound familiar?: Your baby has endured and survived more in their short life than few people would ever experience in … [Continue...]
Parent Coaching with Gigi
Avoiding ‘Brain Rats’ and Regaining Your Focus (& Sanity)
This month's quote: "We become what we think about all day long." Ralph Waldo Emerson So much has been happening in my world, both personally as … [Read More...]
What Is Coaching?
What is Coaching? In its simplest form, parent coaching is an open, honest and confidential conversation between two people. It is a journey of … [Read More...]
Families Blossoming Popular Posts
Empowered Parenting for Children with Special Needs New Kindle Edition eBook
Born out of two shared hearts, minds and similarly-felt experiences (and created via a big push from my webmaster extraordinaire Diane), this Kindle book was developed by Marianne and I based off of our successful Disability or Different Abilities 2-part Teleseminar held earlier this year. After creating and co-presenting the Teleseminar, we … [Read More...]
‘Date Day’…..still counts?
Date night! All of the relationship gurus say that couples with kids should have one or several date nights! Our 7th wedding anniversary is coming up this weekend and my husband and I are following their advice and are going on a date! Woo-hoo!! During the day - huh? Does this still count relationship people?? In my book it … [Read More...]
Umbrella – ‘F-r-i-d-d-n-t’
In school, Alejandro has just begun to be exposed to the concept of spelling - understanding that the letters he's learning makes up actual words - and like a bee to honey, he is all over it. Only problem is the word he's saying and how he is spelling it are like night and day, oil and water, chalk and cheese - you get my drift. The two are … [Read More...]
Fretting Not Allowed
No Fretting! That's my new personal motto and one that I'm hoping you will take on as well. Almost all parents feel some type of guilt on some level at varying points along their parenting journeys. "Did I do or say the right thing?" "Am I doing the best for my child?" "Is my child happy?" and the list goes on and on. For those … [Read More...]
“Mommy, he’s blind”
"Mommy, he's blind" ... yelled the little girl while pointing at my son Alejandro as we walked past her at the swimming pool. My heart stung for a split second. Did Alejandro hear her? If he did, did he know that she was talking about him? We were rushing to the pool for his weekly swimming lesson and Alejandro was so excited about … [Read More...]
Families blossom when parents thrive.
