As 2014 comes to an end, I feel that I should count my blessings with my children. I know that I started to blog about my children’s disabilities and it sounds so sad at points, but looking back on the year, I see that my children have grown. Although the stress for my daughter in… Read more

As the time passes by and your college bound child is “hopefully” working well at school. I go with the philosophy “no word is good word”, your focus goes on the second child. My second child, my son, also has learning disabilities. When he was a baby, his speech was delayed. I always attributed this… Read more

As a parent of a child with a disability, we hope and pray we make the correct decisions for our children. There comes a time when we believe we must let them go and experience on their own. There is a time when they turn “of age”, this age is 18. Many of us “parents”… Read more

As I have written these blogs I wanted to give back to people who have the same situations as myself. It’s not that there aren’t any really qualified people out there that can help you, but it seems that when I needed some type of information that was over the top or not the norm,… Read more

It’s been awhile since I have written, August was a very emotional month for me. My daughter made her way to college. A month’s worth of preparation, not the packing or shopping but the important issues that parents with learning disabled children really care about: medication, doctor calls, support systems, roommates, money allocations, to name… Read more

It’s coming to the time when I have to acknowledge that I must extend the strings of attachment to my daughter. With all the challenges, changes, and some maturity that have happened to her, she will be leaving us to go to college. It is so tough for parents of a learning disabled child. This… Read more

I remember when I was so desperately trying to have children and we finally were chosen by birth parents to get my daughter, the words the social worker said to me ” Children are a gift from God but for only a short time, they grow and then we have to let them go.” As… Read more

I’ve been slightly remiss in adding to my blog, the ending of a child’s or maybe I should preface this with the “young adult” high school years is quite overwhelming for parents. I can hardly imagine what it is for these children. As I close on the 12 years of schooling my child has encountered,… Read more

Coming to the end of the school year, I have to write a post that really comes from my heart. For all the year’s that I have advocated, guided, controlled, and most importantly, helped my daughter in school and life, we come to the end of her high school years. I have tried to write… Read more

As my child goes from summer camp, school and now graduation, we come upon the most difficult time in a child’s disability, the first job. Although my daughter has babysat in the neighborhood and made lots of money,the economy is such that those jobs are few and far between now, as more people are staying… Read more