Helping Moms Raise Kids With Special Needs
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: Disrespect the president 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 this, but as a Christian, and after studying God’s
Longtime readers of this blog know that I support an inclusive environment in school for kids with disabilities like mine. I’ve worked hard over the years, with up to 3 IEP meetings over the course of a school year to ensure that all is going well, and have worked with a local inclusion expert too. While that’s been helpful, the fact is it is still difficult for my
I’m going to make a big confession to you. I know on this blog I’ve written several times about “acceptance,” that is, having the power to accept that my kids’ disabilities are just part of life rather than try to change them. And I guess I was going along fine on that route until I discovered this thing called healing. In 2011, we started on
I received this product for free from Moms Meet (momsmeet.com), May Media Group LLC, who received it directly from the manufacturer. As a Moms Meet blogger, I agree to use this product and post my honest opinion on my blog. The opinions posted are my own. Reading is hard for some kids and despite the fact that I’ve tried my best, sometimes my kids just
My beautiful autistic daughter is strong, empowered and a ray of sunshine to me. So she has meltdown sometimes, so what? We need to do our best to empower our girls. Here are 26 ways to empower your autistic daughter. Tell her she’s loved in any way that she can understand. Kisses and hugs, or giving space and blowing your kisses – either works but let
We all know that Halloween can be a scary time for kids with allergies or food sensitivities. This year, make it easy on yourself by following these 5 tips: We all know that Halloween can be a scary time for kids with allergies or food sensitivities. This year, make it easy on yourself by following these 5 tips: 1. Find a teal pumpkin. As you
So in the third and final presidential debate of 2016, the subject of late-term abortions came up and now I feel compelled to write another post on abortion. Late-Term Abortions – When Do We Mean? First, I think we need to clarify the definition of what “late-term” means. It’s pretty ridiculous to assume that women come in just before their due date (as Trump said) and abort on
One of my main missions in writing Embracing Imperfect is to help you raise your kids safely, protecting them from toxins, chemicals, and unsafe foods and more. To help you, I do a few things: Share with you want I know about how to eat clean and living a non-toxic life. Provide you tips and hacks to help you do that better and easier. Empower you to
Traveling with your autistic child can be a burden but to us, it’s not. Before her diagnosis, we treated Zoe like she’s just going to have to deal with it. In retrospect, that was probably not the best option. But we managed, and are actually taking two vacations this year! Will it be troublesome? Maybe, but this year I have some sage advice from Marguerite Elisofon, who
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
