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Continue reading →: 50 Spring Activities to Add to Your Family’s Bucket ListYou can still make time for spring activities. It isn’t too late! While you and your family may feel a bit pent up from the Coronavirus #stayathome orders, planning spring activities helps everyone to look forward to the end of dreary days. Spring activities to bring sunshine to your day…
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Continue reading →: How to Discover Why Your Special Needs or Autistic Kid has MeltdownsI wouldn’t say that meltdowns are completely unique to autistic kids, but they can happen in all kids. When we first hold that adorable baby in our arms, we just cannot believe that they will ever throw a tantrum, much less have a meltdown. Their angel eyes look up at…
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Continue reading →: How to Discipline Your Special Needs KidsDiscipline goes out the window when it is 5:00 at night and your kids seriously need to go to bed. You yell out of fatigue or frustration, getting minimal results and feeling bad because you yelled. It becomes a vicious cycle that only fuels bad behavior in your kids. A…
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Continue reading →: Safety Tips for Special Needs KidsSafety for special needs children must be a priority in our families. When my special needs son was first born, this seriously did not bleep on my radar at all. You tell your kids no and insist that they mind you. They generally listen, like my oldest son, and that…
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Continue reading →: 10 Steps to a Healthy Special Needs KidYou may or may not know this already, but getting special needs kids in peak health is not at all the same as caring for their genetic condition. Good health did not come easy for my son. When my little special needs boy arrived in the world, he couldn’t move.…
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Continue reading →: How We Started a Gluten-Free DietI knew we had to make a change to a gluten-free diet. It was a slow realization that we had a problem. I came down with a mysterious illness myself, a few years after my son was born. My special needs son digested poorly, genetic syndrome aside, and was on…
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Continue reading →: 50+ Healthy Products You Can Buy at Dollar TreeGet healthy products at Dollar Tree? It really is possible. As we all know, there are times money is tight and living frugal takes a front seat to health sometimes. But, with Dollar Tree, you stay healthy with their health products or grocery items, even when money is tight! I…
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Continue reading →: How to Become a Healthy FamilySeveral years ago, there was this idea that we had to have a ton of money in order to be healthy. But, that really isn’t true, you really can live healthy on a budget. One thing I noticed in my own circles of family and friends is that good solid…
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Continue reading →: 100+ Amazing Neflix Movies and TV Shows Your Kids Can Learn FromMovies and videos teach our kids about the world most times. Today’s kid world includes movies with some sort of educational twist in a subtle but fairly accurate plot. They engage children’s minds into learning, discovering and then creating. Spark a creative idea in a child’s mind and watch them…
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Continue reading →: 17 Amazing Ways to Give Your Kids Sensory Therapy at HomeHave you been there? You spent the last 3 years of your autistic child’s life driving him or her to therapy. Exhausted from a weekly trek to and from therapy, plus the rest of life, gets to be a bit much. The kids turn cranky and then you find yourself…
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Continue reading →: How to Create Your Own Home Speech TherapyAs moms, we sometimes needs to create our own sort of home speech therapy. Communication means a lot in our world, and our kids are already at a disadvantage. Getting them talking may be a lifetime mission for us as moms, but it is important. Apraxia or any other speech…
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