Empowered Parenting for Children with Special Needs New Kindle Edition eBook

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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 received lots of feedback that helped Marianne and I realize that what we were sharing touched a … [Read more...]

‘Date Day’…..still counts?

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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 does - and even if it didn't, we're going anyway. We came up with this idea earlier this year … [Read more...]

Umbrella – ‘F-r-i-d-d-n-t’

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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 not similar by any stretch of the imagination because Alejandro can't spell yet - but he doesn't know … [Read more...]

“Mommy, he’s blind”

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"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 seeing 'Leche' (the nickname Alejandro has given his instructor) - that I'm not so sure the girl's … [Read more...]

Lessons From My Preemie

Celebrating my ex-24 weeker! Now 5 years old and my greatest teacher!

Today, Thursday the 17th November, is (drum roll please) the first-ever World Prematurity Day!!! To highlight this very special day, March of Dimes (March of Dimes) and its global partners want to saturate the World Wide Web and show how widespread and prevalent the instances of babies born prematurely really are. More importantly and personally, they want to honor the 1 million babies worldwide who were born prematurely and who died this … [Read more...]

EMBRACE YOUR CRACKED POT SELF

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I am sure many of you have heard of a well-known story about the cracked pot. The  story, in part, goes something like this (and I am paraphrasing a bit):    A water bearer in India had two large pots - one was perfectly made and the other one had a big crack in it - which he carried every day to draw water to bring to his master's house, each one hanging on the pole he carried across his neck. The perfect pot never leaked while the … [Read more...]