What to Share (and Not to Share) About Your Child With a Disability
Because of social media, many people nowadays live their lives in “public.” From what you ordered at a restaurant, to rants about neighbors, to new hairdos. Everything goes… including sometimes our children’s privacy. Recently, a video of a...
16 Things Every Parent of a Child With a Disability Needs
When you parent kids with disabilities, not only do you have the same responsibilities as other parents, you may also be dealing with medical emergencies, therapies, insurance woes, and perhaps even family and friends who don’t get it. There are several things that...
What Does the Future Look Like for My Daughter With Down Syndrome?
My daughter is 12 years old. She is full of sass and is the second most stubborn person I’ve ever known. (My abuelo takes the lead when it comes to being stubborn). She would like to have her own YouTube channel. She isn’t sure what the channel would be about, but...
The Isolation We Feel as Parents of Kids With Disabilities
There is a memory I have of playing with my daughter with Down syndrome at the park. She was around 21 months old, and she wasn’t walking yet. I held her hands so she could “walk.” I helped her climb on the play structures and carried her when necessary, often dashing...
Bringing Together Parents of Kids With Disabilities and Disabled Adults
There is so much to unpack when it comes to the relationship between parents of children with disabilities and actually disabled adults. Carlyle King, Kevin Timpe, and I did our best to explore what this relationship can look like. Kevin and I have learned a lot from...
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.