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Do you have a sick child? Perhaps she’s chronically ill or suffers from pain or a disability that requires tremendous courage to make it through the day. Maybe he has a condition that’s rare or incurable or mysterious, and modern medicine comes up shockingly short. What’s a mom to do? The most heroic people I …
A Mother’s Prayer — What to Do When It’s Really HardRead More
When I was a kid, my family really got into the theatrics of Christmas. My uncle or father would dress up as Santa Claus, complete with stuffed gut and husky voice, so that we kids could take a sneak peak at him while he unloaded our epic amounts of loot on Christmas Eve. I still …
When it comes to this topic of chronically ill kids, do you have moments that pierce the bubble of consciousness and take your breath away? I was waiting to board an early flight to Denver recently, sipping a bracing hot cup of black tea, when I witnessed a scene that would’ve stopped parents from 1975 …
Not long ago I attended a homeschooling conference geared toward the parochial perspective. While we are not a homeschool family, several of my friends are, especially for their children with special needs. I was there to help a friend who had a vendor booth at the conference. What was interesting about this particular group was …
Stress is a two-way street. When we think of stress, it’s usually about emotional stress, known to cause physical illness. But what about stress in womb? Physical imbalances can lead to emotional stress. This article will explore an underlying mechanism of both roads to stress: the gut-brain. Emotional stress is known to lower counts of …
Having a child present with chronic illness at birth is a real game-changer. It allowed me to genuinely refocus what “healthy” meant as recovery was the only option. You can hear our encouraging message on Fearless Parent Radio, Episode #69 — “Fostering Nutrition.” It took us a few years to begin sharing our discoveries. We’ve …
Imagine this: you’ve had a long day—stress at work, an argument with your spouse, an unexpected bill to deal with—and on top of everything else, your teenager, whom you’ve asked three times to take out the garbage, still won’t get off his computer. You snap and tell him that he’s being selfish, then instantly regret …
Five Scripts for Building Resilience in Children with Chronic ConditionsRead More
“When many people are parents to a child, it makes it possible for the child to go to anybody and just sit and talk…. If we don’t encourage our children to talk and be open, they learn other ways to let their voice out, and this energy can become highly destructive to them.” — Sobonfu …
