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November 3, 2015 by: Gina

Tips for Celebrating Thanksgiving with Your Special Needs Child

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Thanksgiving is almost  here, and you’re freaking out, right? I get it. I’ve been there, year after year. You’re worried about multiple things: how will I travel with my child without a meltdown (his or mine)? How can I manage his special diet when he’s around all those treats and goodies? How can I take advantage of all the Black Friday deals with a  child in

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November 29, 2010 by: Gina

Holiday Lessons Learned

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I see that I have not blogged in a whole 5 days! Well, readers, that is because I took 4 whole days off!  I didn’t write, work, think about work, stress over my career, or any of that.  It wasn’t perfect…Chris ended up in the ER with torn rib cartilage (no idea how), and Zoe was a bit of a handful on Thanksgiving. The upside

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November 24, 2010 by: Gina

Happy Thanksgiving, and Mixed Feelings…

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As I sit here live blogging from my living room, my children are watching the second movie on A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, a video about the Mayflower pilgrims. My feelings are mixed because my sweet & speechless Zoe is watching in rapt attention, as she learns about the early pilgrims, or at least our accepted mythology. Non-educational TV hasn’t given her this kind of thrall

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November 2, 2010 by: Gina

5 Tips for Holiday Travel with your Sensitive Child

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As I mentioned yesterday, Zoe had an enormous meltdown while dining out in costume on Friday and when she was  trick-or-treating, she had trouble keeping her clothes  on in 50-felt-like-40 weather.  Still ahead of us lies Thanksgiving, Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa, New Years, and the dreaded cold season, which I seem to recall dumped a little snow on us last year.  What’s a parent with a child with

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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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