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Guest Post: Teaching, Parenting, and Learning Through Difference

February 1, 2015 By Lola Lolita

[nextpage title=”Page 1″ ] I am pleased to welcome Lisa Kramer as a guest writer. This beautiful piece about love and acceptance moved me. Be sure to visit Lisa’s sites for more! ********** Every once in a while—in between the arguments, random tears, messy rooms, and battles for independence—there will be a moment when your child […]

Filed Under: Education, Parenting, Special Needs Tagged With: disability, special needs, teaching, theater

When Lightning Strikes Twice

July 11, 2014 By Lola Lolita

Lightning rarely strikes the same spot twice. But when it does, it is momentous. Lightning strikes are multifaceted. On one hand, they’re beautiful — colorful, unexpected, energizing. On the other hand, they’re destructive — violent, merciless, deadly. If you’re lucky enough to be an observer, you’re filled with awe and wonder at the power of […]

Filed Under: Health, Parenting, Special Needs Tagged With: coping with special needs, parenting a child with special needs, special needs, special needs diagnosis, special needs parenting, when a child has special needs

I Cry for My Son

May 16, 2014 By Lola Lolita

I cry for my son.  Not always, of course, but enough. I first cried for my son just hours after his birth when he quit breathing, the cause of which was unknown until doctors ran a battery of tests and discovered he had suffered a stroke in utero that was causing seizure-induced apnea.  When we […]

Filed Under: Parenting, Special Needs, SPM19 Tagged With: children with special needs, pediatric stroke, special needs, special needs parenting

Please Don’t Mention God and My Child with Special Needs at the Same Time

May 15, 2014 By Lola Lolita

When I became a parent to a child with special needs, I learned, among other things, that I had been saying the absolute wrongest things to people my entire life. As a self-admitted awkward person, I’m terrible when it comes to extending condolences and comforting people in their times of need.  Terrible.  And I’ve discovered […]

Filed Under: Life, Parenting, Special Needs, SPM19 Tagged With: comforting special needs parents, pediatric stroke, special needs, special needs children

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