Helping Our Children With Learning Disabilities
For some of us who have children with learning difficulties, it can be hard to identify challenges and know how to help our kids work through them. But there is an available resource, and I want to tell you all about it. Join Erin and me in today’s episode as we...
Disability Etiquette When Meeting Kids With Disabilities and Their Parents
Before having kids with disabilities, I was not aware about my interactions around people with disabilities. When our friends’ daughter was born with Down syndrome, I said some things that were ignorant and showed how little I knew about people with...Surviving the NICU
My middle daughter was a preemie. She was born at 24 weeks. She was born in Ukraine, where she had no mother or father to look after her. Those days in the NICU she fought alone, and and four years after her birth my husband and I flew to a foreign country to bring...
We Interviewed the Typical Siblings, This Is What They Had to Say
The typical siblings have unique life experiences because of having a brother or sister with a disability. In today’s podcast for Unexceptional Moms we interviewed our kids, who are the typical siblings. they range in age from 11 to 17 and have different...
Tips for Vacationing With Kids With Disabilties
I don’t know about you, but taking trips takes a little bit more planning for our family. We often have to think about accessibility or what accommodations we will need. Join Erin and me on the Unexceptional Moms podcast as we talk about tips for vacationing...
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.