Real Life

10 Tips to an Organized Medicine Cabinet

Organized Medicine Cabinet Your child wakes up in the middle of the night with a terrible cough and you are in search for a bottle of cough medicine. You dash...

Avoiding the Big “ D ” – Denial

Avoiding the Big “ D ” – Denial Oh it’s true! As hard as I try, it sneaks in. I push it out of my brain and say, “It can’t...

The Vows of Special Needs Parents

The Vows of Special Needs Parents When a family has a child with tremendous needs, what we do for her can sometimes overshadow everything else, including our relationship with our...

Understanding the Mental Skills Affected by ADD and ADHD (Part 1)

(ADD – Attention Deficit Disorder and ADHD – Attention Deficit Hyper Activity) It can be tough having ADD / ADHD, especially if you are a child. ADD and ADHD are...

How Do I Prepare for My Child’s Special Needs Future?

With the current economy the way it is… I am afraid we will never be able to retire. I am not even sure where or how to begin to prepare...

Relationship Rescue: How Do I Get My Husband to Help More During the Holidays?

Question: The holidays are always stressful for me. I always feel like everything is on me: make the plans for the holiday season, figure out what to buy the kids,...

Take Advantage of the Little Moments

Little Moments We time. Even uttering those words to myself in my head makes me chuckle a bit. Having a special needs child makes you reevaluate and redefine many things;...

Real Life with Eustacia Cutler

Eustacia Cutler Mother of four children. Her oldest child is Temple Grandin, who has become a successful person with autism in the world today. Of all the incredible people I’ve...

The Present

I was walking across the yard today with Seth, as I have done so many times before, after getting him off of the bus. We were strolling more than walking,...

Resiliency Lessons from the Chilean Mine Triumph

A worldwide web of viewers watched 33 miners being pulled to the surface following a 600,000 ton cave-in that happened nearly one-half mile below the ground on a barren plain...