An honest discussion about parenting a differently abled child

How to Respond to Kids' Disability Curiosity | by DEI for Parents

Learn the best answers to common questions · Are disabilities contagious? · Why do they act like that? · Why don't they go to our school? · Why ...

Ellen Stumbo - Parents of kids with disabilities, there is... | Facebook

Honestly, I think it's a reflection of an ableist society and as parents we think because our kids are disabled we cannot possibly be ableist, ...

How To Talk To Your Kid About Disabilities | HuffPost Life

Parents should discuss inclusivity and representation for disabled people with their children. ... The conversation about disability should be ...

Special Needs Parenting | Signs, Symptoms, Support - The Mighty

Calling all parents of kids with special needs and disabilities! · 0 comments · Be first ; What do you do when you're anxious about your children? · 6 comments · 6.

Four Unforgivable Thoughts…That are Completely Normal for ...

Find a special needs parent support group · Trust in a mentor · Read books written by parents of kids with your child's disability · Work with a counselor · Commit ...

Teaching Your Child To Appreciate A Different Child ... - Motheropedia

I blew away a chance for my son and me to make new friends!! It left me wondering. Wondering how I can equip myself and my children to handle ...

'My Friend Said She'd Rather Have an Abortion Than a Child Like ...

Parenting a disabled child ... I never had to decide whether I would keep or abort my disabled child. I got pregnant on my first try and the ...

Special needs parenting and the questions we can't answer

There are checklists, stages and milestones that can be neatly ticked off at different times, and although these vary from child to child, there ...

Alone in a Crowded Room: The Truth About Special Needs Parenting

Though not always apparent or openly discussed, the isolation faced by parents of children with special needs runs deep. It exists in the ...

Respectful autism awareness: how to discuss the struggles without ...

... child's “heroic autism journey” while the content is largely about ... differently-abled, if the parent complains they are failures, etc.

Summer Is Tough for Parenting a Child With Disabilities But It's Also ...

As a parent of a daughter with a disability, I feel like I am in a perpetual state of learning tips from the “experts.” Having a child with ...

Parenting Impossible – The Special Needs Survival Podcast - Spotify

They share an honest and heartfelt conversation about the real ... raising a child with disabilities and navigating the healthcare and education systems.

School Talk: Introducing Disabilities to Classrooms and Friends

When the children understood that the disability was not bad, but just different, many were eager to help him.” More understanding leads to more ...

Everything No One Tells You About Parenting a Disabled Child

For parents of disabled children, navigating the systems, services, and supports is a daunting and often overwhelming, task. No one explains to ...

The Rewards and Challenges of Parenting a Special Needs Child

We did what we thought anyone would do: we adopted Allie and became the parents of a severely disabled little girl. ... honest, we love ...

Everything You Want to Know About Down Syndrome (But Are ...

Honest questions & answers with a Wichitamom parenting a child with Down Syndrome ... differently-abled child may not understand about ...

Did you really just say that? The ignorant words SEND parents hear ...

My advice would be think before you speak. Appreciate that the parents know the child and family circumstances best – please listen to them.

Truthfully, I'm worried about becoming a disabled mother

We praise 'inspirational' non-disabled parents raising disabled children, but why not the other way round? By Hannah Turner Published: 06 ...

special needs parenting | faithmummy

That was until I had a disabled child of my own. My son was born vulnerable. Smaller than average due to being a twin, a little premature and struggling to ...

The Ones We Sent Away - The Atlantic

My mother and I were sitting at the kitchen table when I wondered aloud what I'd do if I ever had a disabled child. ... parents had lost a child,” ...