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Special Needs Blog Week in Review – June 3-9, 2012

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Each week, the Special Needs Blog Week in Review gives you a quick summary of all of the blogs that appeared here in the past week. This gives you an easy way to find the blogs that you missed, or that you didn’t have time to read when they first went up. The Special Needs Podcast Roundup went up on June 4, 2012. This week, I’d like to point out an episode of The Coffee Klatch. The episode is called “Best of The Coffee Klatch – Dr. Russell Barkley – ADHD” This episode features information from Russell A. Barkley, PhD., … Continue reading →

It Takes an Office to Raise a Child

. It used to be that if you had a baby, you stayed home. Or you put the child in day care. Or you hired a nanny. You did not however, bring the baby to work. All of that is changing now in recent years. In the late 80’s and early 90’s, we began to see a rise in corporate day care facilities. It became the best of both worlds where mom (or dad) would bring the baby to work and drop their baby off at the company day care. But now there is a new trend on the horizon: … Continue reading →

Lilly Diabetes – Disney Partnership

Learning to live with diabetes, especially type 1, is a hard adjustment for anyone. But it might be the hardest for children. Now suddenly kids have an adult responsibility in watching what they eat while most other children around them consume whatever they want. Enter the Lilly Diabetes organization’s new partnership with Disney. Stitch Kingdom reports on the measures the diabetes awareness and research company has taken with Disney Online and Disney Publishing to raise public cognizance of the disease and to help families who struggle with it. The Lilly-Disney partnership takes two forms: a new subset of the Disney … Continue reading →

Good Parent Patrol

Twitter, Facebook, and other social networking sites have changed the way the world communicates. Technology has also made it much easier to blow the whistle on bad parents. Just ask local law enforcement officers, who respond to dozens of calls per day from concerned strangers, who witness alleged acts of parental neglect and child abuse. Acts of bad parenting are well documented, and these days it typically takes a story like this to raise eyebrows. This sad fact disturbed folks in Kalamazoo, Michigan so much that they decided to take matters into their own hands. Kalamazoo County Child Abuse and … Continue reading →

Adoption is Great for Dads AND Moms

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  It’s been said that in couples, it’s often the woman who drives the adoption process. Perhaps the women have more need to raise children, perhaps they feel worse about being infertile, perhaps they want to have the childrearing experience so many of their friends have. Or it may just be that they know more about adoption, perhaps because women seem to talk amongst themselves about their personal lives and children more than male coworkers and acquaintances do. Some women have found that their husbands were initially reluctant about adopting. I’m sure sometimes it happens the other way around too, … Continue reading →

The Nanny

This fun and flirty television show caught my attention right off. Fran Drescher stars as Fran Fine, a rough-around-the-edges girl from Queens who’s been working in a bridal shop. Her boyfriend, owner of the shop, decides to break up with her and gives her job to someone else. Fran tries to get back on her feet selling cosmetics door-to-door, and while knocking in one particularly nice neighborhood, is mistaken for the new nanny sent over by the agency and is invited right in. She’s in the home of Maxwell Sheffield (Charles Shaughnessey). He’s a top-notch Broadway producer, widower, and father … Continue reading →

How to Afford a Baby When You Really Can’t Afford One

This blog is actually the result of a lamenting mother who wishes she could stay home, wishes she could have more children but states she simply can’t afford it. Let’s face it, the economy isn’t doing anyone any favors these days. She says she can barely afford diapers. Understand that I’m not judging anyone here. Whether or not you want to stay home or go to work is your choice and it doesn’t have to be mine. But it makes me sad to see fellow moms lamenting over leaving their children in day care, wanting more but claiming unaffordability all … Continue reading →

Look Who Will Be Gracing Your Envelopes in 2008

Once you finish using the last of your Christmas stamps you’ll have a plethora of new self-adhesive postage options to choose from to mail off all those holiday-related bills. The United States Postal Service just unveiled a list of new stamps they plan to release in 2008. Among the new postage stamps scheduled to grace envelopes next year is the face of a Hollywood legend whose eyes inspired a hit song. Screen siren Bette Davis is being honored by the postal service on the 100th anniversary of her birth with a commemorative stamp. The 10-time Academy Award nominee will be … Continue reading →

When Mommies Have to Work

As women of the Church, we have been counseled to stay at home and raise our children rather than entering the work force. We are to be the guardians of the home, to keep it safe from outside influences, and to create a haven for our family members. However, there are now many women who find themselves having to work outside the home. They become divorced or widowed, their husbands have been injured, or their financial situation is such that two incomes are needed. When the lesson “The Women of the Church” was taught in Relief Society last week, one … Continue reading →

“My Son Has Juvenile Diabetes and Autism.” A Mother’s Interview

The following interview is with Ammey, a mother whose children have multiple medical and cognitive conditions. Of particular interest to me is her situation with her oldest son, Khy, who has both juvenile diabetes and autism. Ammey responded to my blog, Do You Have BOTH Juvenile Diabetes and Autism in Your Family? Here is her story. 1. Tell us a little about your family. My name is Ammey, and I’ve been married for thirteen years to my husband Mikel. We have three children: Our son Khy is 14, Kaine is 11, and Lilli is four. Khy has autism, asthma, type … Continue reading →