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September 12, 2018 by: Gina

The Most Important Of All The Bible Verses For Moms

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This week, we are taking a look at one short verse in the Bible, instead of a whole story, one that is one of the MOST important Bible verses for moms. It’s this one: I remember your genuine faith, for you share the faith that first filled your grandmother Lois and your mother, Eunice. And I know that same faith continues strong in you. – 2

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December 1, 2017 by: Gina

Fighting Defeatist Parenting

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This weekend, I had discussion about condoms with someone who said, “I got them at my daughter’s high school. They have a bowl of them in the nurse’s room.” I must have had a funny look on my face because she immediately follow this up with, “I agree with them giving them out! She’s just going to do it anyway. Better safe than sorry.” I’m going

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November 3, 2017 by: Gina

A Witness In The Dark

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Today was hard, but sometimes I write that and think, What else is new? A Christian friend who also has an autistic child, one that’s an adult already, brought this home recently: “I know life is hard, but sometimes I want to say to God, Does it have to be this hard?” And another Christian friend is suffering deeply as her child suffers with a

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September 21, 2017 by: Gina

Praying Out Your Pain

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This morning was a tough one, and it’s really been all my fault. My family and I went to Baltimore this weekend so I could attend Expo East Natural Products Expo. In service of making life easy, my husband and I agreed to bring the kids without supplements and treatments, just for 2 days, and forego our Paleo diet. It would be too inconvenient to pack everything

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July 28, 2017 by: Gina

Parenting, Autism Recovery & Idols: What’s God’s Will?

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Today I read an interesting Christian post, “When Your Kids Won’t Bow to Idols,” which was really about PARENTS bowing to idols! The gist of it was to ask yourself if you are raising your kids to follow some idol of parenting that you’ve made for yourself. For example, are you expecting to be an expert at parenting because child #1 was “easy” to discipline? The

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January 20, 2017 by: Gina

Respecting Your Leaders: What’s a Christian Supposed to Do?

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For those of us who are Christians, everything we put out there, even if we think it’s in secret, sends a message to our children and to nonbelievers including this one: Disrespect the president or any of our leaders, visibly, and you teach your children disrespect. “But Gina,” you might be thinking, “respect is earned!” I HEAR YOU! I’ve spent a good part of my life believing

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November 16, 2016 by: Gina

Hope In The Desert

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It’s been a hard time lately. A lot of unpleasant things were hitting the fan at the same time. First, Zoe’s current regression broke my heart. I learned that in school, she went from acing advanced 5th-grade math while in the 4th grade last spring – able to multiply 6 digits numbers in her head – to testing at a first-grade level and unable to multiply by 1’s

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June 22, 2016 by: Gina

Loving Your Child and Accepting Their Special Needs

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Today, I find myself looking back on this journey of raising two daughters with special needs. It’s an amazing journey, full of unexpected joys and unintended heartbreak. But it’s my journey and I wouldn’t trade it for the world. On this journey, I found my God. On this journey, I found out how to love unconditionally. On this journey, I learned to fight for the

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May 4, 2016 by: Gina

4 Simple steps to teaching your learning disabled children Godly discernment

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Raising children with special needs as a Christian parent isn’t easy! One of the tools you need in your toolbox is a bit of Christianese we call “discernment.” What is discernment? Webster’s Dictionary defines it as, “the quality of being able to grasp and comprehend what is obscure.” In Christianese, though, it has a slightly different meaning. GotQuestion.org has a slightly different answer: Discernment is

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April 4, 2016 by: Gina

Alzheimers, Down Syndrome and the Demons in my Closet

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Several years ago, I lost my mom to Alzheimers. This is a difficult, debilitating disease that can be very destructive to families. Much has changed in the nearly 4 years since writing this, but the message of hope lingers in my heart. I truly hope to see Mom again one day. If you’ve ever known a loved one who’s suffered with Alzheimers, then you know

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Gina Badalaty

I’ve been blogging since 2002 with about raising girls with with disabilities. I'm on a mission to help moms like me thrive and live toxin-free! Read more!

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