What About You Mom? PTSD and Special Needs Parents
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Jolene Philo, for a summer series highlighting great writers who focus on disability. PTSD and parents. I don’t want those two words to go together in the same sentence. Ever. But the truth is that PTSD and parents...I Used To Cry On His Birthday
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Mardra Sikora for a summer series highlighting great bloggers who focus on disability. I cried when he turned one and I knew heart surgery was on the horizon. I cried when he turned five and we were fighting with the public...
10 Needs Every Parent of a Child With a Disability Has (Besides Lots of Coffee)
All parents have needs, but for some of us who parent children with disabilities, those needs might be harder to meet. Some of our kids require extra medical attention, or extra supervision, or extra appointments to see different specialists and therapists. It is...
I Don’t Like People With Down Syndrome (SET #4)
SET= Search Engine Term Once in a while I like to look at the search engine terms that bring people to my site. Some of them are so puzzling that I dedicate blog posts to respond to those searches, since, you know, it landed those people on my blog. I might as well...
Confessions of a Parent of Kids With Disabilities: I Wish You Could See What I See
It’s no secret my girls have disabilities. You can easily see the facial characteristics of Down syndrome, or the walker, wheelchair, and gait that points to cerebral palsy. Delays, poor speech, labored steps. I know you see the behaviors, I know you hear the...
Ellen Stumbo writes and speaks about finding beauty in brokenness with gritty honesty and openness. She's passionate about sharing the real – sometimes beautiful and sometimes ugly – aspects of faith, parenting, special needs, and adoption. Ellen’s writing has appeared on Focus on the Family, LifeWay, MomSense, Not Alone, Mamapedia and the Huffington Post.