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The Messy House Confession: Always Playing Catch-Up
There is laundry that has been clean and sitting in a basket for four days, waiting to be folded by someone who has not had a spare twenty…
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I Just Want to Confirm My Understanding
The email that turns a phone call into a record Most of the important things a school tells you, it tells you out loud. The teacher catches you…
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Play It Again (and Again, and Again): The Rewatch Loop
If you’ve never heard the same three minutes of a movie rewound and replayed for the fortieth time in one afternoon, congratulations, you have not lived in my…
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Third Eye Kisses: The Highest Form of Love
There is a kiss my kids give that isn’t on the cheek, isn’t on the lips, isn’t the kind you see in movies or greeting cards. It lands…
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The IEP Is Written, But Is the School Actually Following It?
Perhaps you noticed your child’s IEP progress report came back showing their goals are not being met. Maybe your child said they haven’t met with the guidance counselor…
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Moving Their Minds: How Sports and Movement Help Neurodivergent Kids Thrive
Movement has done more for our kids than almost any therapy we’ve paid for, and I say that as someone who has paid for a lot of therapy.…
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The Marriage Question: What the Research Actually Says About Special Needs Families
You’ve probably heard the statistic. Eighty percent of marriages raising a child with autism end in divorce. It gets repeated at conferences, in support groups, in well-meaning articles…
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Happy Birthday… Not So Happy Parties
There is a very specific kind of overstimulation nightmare that a birthday party creates, and most people never clock it because to them it just looks like a…
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The Safe Food Struggle: Sensory Processing, Picky Textures, and the Real Cost of Keeping the Peace
Sensory Processing Disorder doesn’t always look like what people expect. It isn’t just a kid being dramatic about a tag in their shirt or refusing to eat something…
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Corner Talk: Prepping for an IEP Meeting Like It’s a Fight
Nobody tells you this when you get the diagnosis, but an IEP meeting is a fight, and you are walking into the ring whether you feel ready or…
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Vacationing with Special Needs Kids: All the Things Nobody Warns You About
We want our kids to have all the same childhood things everyone else’s kids get, the water park day, the hotel pool, the family road trip. But wanting…
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The Sibling Who Wasn’t “The One” (Until She Was)
When you have more than one child with needs, people assume there’s always “the other one,” the sibling who doesn’t need extra appointments, extra meetings, extra everything. For…
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