In a world where things often feel disconnected, forming and maintaining a personal connection can be a challenge. Although we have greater, often instant, access to each other via the technology at our fingertips, we may be sacrificing quality for quantity in our connections, even within our family relationships.
Parenting can be hard in any situation, but especially when you have a child with special needs. Sometimes, siblings of special needs children can feel left out or neglected, which makes it important for parents to strike a balance between being attentive to their special needs child and caring for their other children as well.
Here are four ways to care for siblings of special needs children.
When I became a mother for the first time, I felt like my life had been flipped upside down.
Facebook recently reminded me of this truth with a status I posted three years ago when I birthed my daughter. It went something like this: “I’ve decided that becoming a mother is like trying to land a 747 in a blizzard. It’s difficult, scary, and uncertain, but in the end, I hang on tight, knowing that most planes make it safely onto the runway without crashing. Right?”
Let’s just say my daughter and I got off to kind of a rocky start.
Kids create cute artwork with macaroni noodles. They learn to count with it. They string elbow macaroni on yarn to wear as necklaces around their neck. And of course, they love to chow on macaroni and cheese lunches.
Life for a child can seem as simple as macaroni, but parenting these little darlings is not so easy and carefree. For us, it’s much more than macaroni. Parenting gets complicated, demanding, exhausting, and is often a thankless job with little recognition for all the hard work and sleepless nights you put into it.
On this week’s empowering episode of Army Wife Talk Radio, we’re chatting with guest, Kit Jenkins about The Carrying On Project.
Our Tiny Human just turned 3 years old. And with the Terrible Twos behind us, I thought things would flip like a light switch as the final smoke wafted from her blown-out candles.
And it did. We went directly into the Threenager Stage.
It’s really not that bad. In fact, I like her more now than I did this time three years ago after 12 hours of Pictocin-induced labor with no pain meds. (Side note: I have, of course, always loved her. She is just more fun.)
On this week’s empowering episode of Army Wife Talk Radio, we’re chatting with guest, Patty Gatter from The Breastfeeding Shop.
I’ve spent some time reflecting upon the life I’ve known for the past 28 years as a new chapter quickly approaches.
For the last 12 of those 28 years, I’ve gone through life with my husband by my side. Sometimes it’s hard to believe that we were both just 16 when we started dating and we’ve come so far down this road together. I didn’t know then that we would be a military family or that we would live in so many places and one day we would start a family together.
As December comes to a close, I can hardly believe how quickly this year has done by. A lot of changes have happened in my life, and though there is much to look forward to in the new year, I have also gone through many ups and downs this past year.
In February, shortly after my husband reenlisted for the third time, we learned he would be going on his first overseas assignment to South Korea. It took me a long time to decide whether I wanted to stay in the U.S. while he did an unaccompanied tour or whether I should go with him and spend two years living overseas. I had a difficult time making the decision, weighing the pros and cons, but eventually we decided that it was better to stay behind so we could get the year out of the way.
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