Parenting Tips
Fun Winter Break Activities for Kids Guaranteed to Bust Boredom
With the holidays coming up, you may be thinking about what to do with the kids when they are home from school for two or three weeks. Lucki…
Articles
Parenting Tips
7 Fantastic Stocking Stuffers for a Child With Anxiety
During my student teaching semester in college, I remember helping the teacher with her classroom Christmas party. A little girl named Emma …
Parenting Tips
Easy 12 Days of Christmas Activities For Families Everyone Will Enjoy
The 12 days of Christmas activities have been something that our family looked forward to every year. Each year we would start on December 2…
Parenting Tips
7 Fun Family Christmas Traditions for Children with Special Needs
Do you have treasured family Christmas traditions your children look forward to year after year? Christmas is a time of year that always bri…
Parenting Tips
Anxious Children: Best Ways to Help Your Child With Anxiety
The first day of school is always the hardest for anxious children. But this year, the class size has almost doubled. Most of the kids were …
Parenting Tips
How to Raise an Optimistic Child in the 21st Century
How will some children see a glass as half full while others see it half empty? As a special needs parent, you want to raise your child to b…
Parenting Tips
How to Teach Your Special Needs Teen Transitional Skills at Home
What are Transitional Skills and Why are they Important? Transitional skills are any life skills you need to transition to an independent ad…
Behaviors
Understanding Your Strong Willed Child And How to Manage Behavior
My daughter is a strong-willed child. I love her with all my heart, but I just don’t know what to do anymore. She never listens to her fathe…
Special Education IEP
How to Have a Successful IEP Team Meeting
When we got to the IEP team meeting, I was immediately overwhelmed. There were so many people there, and they all seemed to know each other.…