No, I don’t mean allergy season, though that certainly would apply. I mean summer, and its attendant crisis-level situations about what to do when you have two working parents, special needs children, and services to arrange around family demands.
We’re all busy. Even without the challenges I know a lot of you parents have of getting [...]
Posts Tagged ‘special needs’
21 Apr
That headache time of year
31 Mar
Paying the piper
“After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.“
Star Trek’s Spock
Humans want things. We want to travel and have new experiences. We want to be loved. We want to be successful and have good self-esteem. We [...]
16 Oct
Have you played the “A” card?
Parents of special-needs kids often have a lot to cope with: meltdowns, perseveration, echolalia, single-focusedness, sheer obliviousness. All this coping tends to drain away patience and sometimes even your ability to remain polite, especially when people who don’t understand get on your last nerve. Often at Wal-Mart. I’m not sure why that is. Maybe they’ve [...]
3 Sep
A mother of a job
If I hear one more talking head complain that Sarah Palin couldn’t possibly act as vice president or president because she has five children, including a special-needs child, I think my head will fly off.
In case you’ve been in a hole somewhere, I’m talking about quotes like this from the Telegraph in the United Kingdom: [...]
17 Jun
Waiting
Some people dwell on the past. Some people obsess about the present. Me, I seem to be always looking ahead, waiting.
I’m the family planner, so I’ve got many, many things that are coming. Doctor appointments, haircuts, prescription refills, family gatherings–all of them waiting to happen, but on my mind now, to make sure they’re [...]
18 Mar
Tourney for the Journey
My daughter is the Director of Residential Programs for Sierra Nevada Journeys, an environmental camp just off Lake Tahoe in Reno, Nevada. They’re running a fund- raising contest, and I wanted to share it with you, because I know many of our special kids are so deep into nature, we’d all like to go. It’s [...]
13 Jan
A sad epidemic
A disturbing trend seems to have surfaced in recent months: solving your family troubles by murder.
I know some are following the Karen McCarron trial, where an Illinois doctor admitted killing her daughter to end her family’s pain caused by living with a child with autism. But this is by no means the only one, and [...]
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