source Yesterday I shared how we use a "Family Command Center" or Visual Schedule to help our children finish the tasks that they need to do. A Visual Schedule helps the child know what is excepted and what activity is coming next. Today I want to help you set up your own schedules and command center. The examples below are our ...
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Precious Unhealthy Baby
source At Women's Ministry sometimes prayer request time can become raw. A time of confession of thoughts, feelings, and concerns. A while back a friend, who is pregnant with her second child, expressed prayer for their coming baby. As the conversation continued, she explained that she was nervous about ...
One Thing that We Have Done Right
Pin It In my attempt to be real with you, I feel like I share a lot of yuck. The many areas in my life that I struggle with anxiety, anger, bitterness, frustration, and overall lack of self-control. I peel off the mask and show how God is working in my life. Today, I am going to share with you the complete opposite. Now, ...
What is Your Reaction to the Roaring River?
Pin It Use your imagination with me for a few moments. I am standing in the middle of a river. The river is filled with rocks, rapids, and sharp turns. As the water rushes around me, what am I going to do? Here are a few options. Try to hold back the water. With all my ability try to get the water ...
Do You Like Raw Eggs?
Pin It Sometimes I wonder, "What did I do to deserve this?" or "Why did God do this to me?" In my own little pity party, I get frustrated with my failed expectations. I mean, in my mind I have the picture of a perfect Christian family. I imagine children who laugh and play together. I think about a family who sits at the dinner table ...
Ways to Serve Parents of Children with Special Needs
source I wanted to repost this information because it contains wonderful ideas for helping parents who have a child with special needs. Throughout life's challenges, we have had people tell us "give me a call if you need help." I have learned that people either say that to make themselves feel better or they say it because they really ...
Coping
Pin It This is an upcycled post. While Bubs was only 5 years old than when this was first posted, he still deals with coping issues. I received a sweet email from a mom a few days ago desperate for support with her son who has Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD). Her letter cried out as she struggles to deal with the stares from people ...
Surgery Success or Failure?
He met me at the door with "I am wetting, Mommy." I looked at the soaked bedsheets from the night before and my shoulders slumped. This fell on the hills of a horrible report from church the day before. The teacher didn't call me to come get him just because she wanted to give me a full break without the kiddos. (God ...
Books to Prepare Your Child for the Hospital
With Little Man preparing to go to the hospital to have his tonsils and adenoids removed I wanted to share some of the books that we have read or ones that have been recommended to us. Use these books with your own child or grandchild or give them as gift to a child in your life who is going to have surgery. (I have made notes beside ...
Could One Thing Fix Our Child’s Impulse Control Issues?
Pin It For quite a while, I have been praying for a miracle. Something that will help Little Man with impulse control. We realized a while back that we can't discipline Little Man into control. In his heart-of-hearts, he truly wants to obey. But something in him is causing him to choose the wrong over the right. After an ADHD ...