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If your grandchild has special needs, it’s difficult to know how to be there for both them and their parents. The best thing a grandparent can do to support his or her special needs child is to spend time with the child and talk to the child’s parents about the best way to handle the [...]
If any of you are regular readers of my posts here on a Nation of Moms, you know that deadlines and I do not get along. At all. So, I definitely did not understand that I was getting into deadline heaven when I first started cyber school with the twins. If you refer to Why [...]
For years, I’ve had to fight against people constantly underestimating Isaac. It has happened as far back as I can remember. It has been every school year without fail. In Pre-K-I had to fight to send him to the integrated classroom, although it was painfully obvious that he was way past the peers in the [...]
I think I lost a friend. I don’t know how, but I’m pretty sure she’s not my friend anymore. And, I think she’s not my friend because I have made the decision to put my kids above my career. We all make decisions in life, some big and some small, and we make them everyday. [...]
Now that school is out, there is just an amazing amount of time to fill. For kids with special needs, this means that there is a lot of time to fill and all of us parents going insanely crazy. So, what do you do with the special needs kiddo that you’ve either not been offered [...]
In a previous post, I discussed my decision to enroll the girls in a cyber school. This post is about the benefits to ME! I remember that fateful day in October 2009~ Knuckles’ very first Parent-Teacher conference. She was in Kindergarten. It changed my life forever. I don’t remember if I had The Princesses [...]
I know I ‘homeschool.’ and I am (one of) the homeschool contributor (who misses her deadlines by 2 or 3 months) here, but I have a confession. I am not homeschooling anymore. My kids are going to *GASP* public school. Well, kinda… Not really but kinda… I have, indeed enrolled my kids in public school [...]
Parenting is the toughest job there is. Parenting special needs kids is even tougher! As the parent of two special needs kids (Tourettes, Bipolar and ADHD), I remember getting up every morning when they were young and wondering how I was going to drum up the energy to cope. It wasn’t just the endless doctors, [...]
I tend to go a bit bananas in the spring. Not because I’m coming off of a long winter in Upstate New York (especially this winter!), but because I realize I have to deal with the three letters that I dread the most-IEP. When I was just teaching, IEP (Individualized Education Plan) time meant that [...]
People think I’m crazy when I tell them the types of animals I have in my house. I have 2 cats, a few fish and 2 albino claw frogs. Yes, the cats torment the frogs. Yes, it’s seriously entertaining to watch. But, what’s more entertaining to watch and learn from is the interaction between Isaac [...]
Many of you will be seeing family or friends who have a child with Autism this Christmas… here are 5 things you can do to make sure that visit goes a little more smoothly for everyone involved.. 1. Try to prepare yourself and your children for what to expect from the autistic child. If you [...]
One thing that special needs parents need more than anything else is to take care of themselves. This doesn’t happen as often as it should. The majority of parents or caregivers with special needs children are often emotionally and physically exhausted to the point where they can’t take care of themselves, let alone their child. [...]
Last year, Isaac got a great brainstorm. He asked to join the local professional hockey team. This was after one of the players asked him if he was going to be a goalie. Yeah. Goalie. The position of little brains and lots of guts. Of COURSE my child wants to be a goalie! The demand from [...]
Last year at this time, I was tearing my hair out, in tears trying to figure out where Isaac was going to school for kindergarten. He had just come out of an amazing integrated preschool, where he had been for 3 years. I wasn’t handing my crazy boy off to just any school. I had [...]
In about two weeks here in Upstate New York, the students will be heading back into the classrooms and the learning will begin. What a lot of students don’t realize is that the majority of them (at least in my district) will have a student with special needs in their classroom for, at the very [...]
I’ve got a child with a disability. Most people don’t believe me because he’s verbal, funny, plays hockey and does anything a normal 6 year old does. My child is one of those who have a “hidden disability,” or one that’s not visible to the naked eye. This is Isaac. Isaac has been diagnosed with [...]
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