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There’s Always Room for One More
When I was a little girl, I remember laying on the bottom bunk in my bedroom and pushing my legs up against the top bunk as hard as I could to raise it up. While I strained my skinny little legs, I stared at a poster on my wall. It was one that had always been there for as long as I could remember. The poster was a picture of stuffed animals of various sorts sitting in a carboard box. The caption at the bottom read, “There’s Always Room For One More.” I thought about that saying a lot, lying on the bottom bunk, when I was young. I thought…
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5 Steps to Surviving Distance Learning
Surviving Distance Learning! Many children who do well naturally in school do NOT thrive under the current Distance Learning conditions! Moreover, not only are they isolated from their friends, but they are expected to pay attention for hours via internet. Add to this a child with learning disabilities, or who struggles with academics, and it can be a perfect storm for disaster! There is not a lot of stimulation from a flat screen concerning school work! How can you help keep them engaged, and save your sanity? Basically, if what you are currently doing isn’t working, or is not working well, consider changing tactics. In other words, a new approach…
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Diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder
Labels A few years ago, a 17 year old girl in our local high school was diagnosed with Situational Bipolar Disorder. It wasn’t a severe case, but still she suffered. Wouldn’t it have been better if her friends had been aware of the struggles concerning this disorder rather than alienate her? She had lost most of her friends, and struggled severely with social anxieties, and battled depression. Kandi was teased and ridiculed for exhibiting what the other teens think is “Hyper-active, immature, or annoying behavior.” She could not help it when she got into these phases. Kandi was not Hyper-active: she was in a state of mania. When in this…
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Parenting a Child from Planet Asperger’s
Once Upon a Time, there was a King and Queen who had a beautiful baby daughter. They threw a grand celebration and invited all of the magical fairies in the realm to bestow upon the child a gift. The fairies gave her gifts such as the gift of kindness, grace and beauty. Oh wouldn’t it be magical if we could really do this? If we could bestow our children with gifts of the spirit, talents, abilities and other positive genetic features and traits? We cannot choose our genetics, at least not yet. So what do we do when we have this beautiful baby Prince or Princess who ends up being…
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The Stigma Of Mental Illness
Many people would say, “If you are depressed, then you need to snap out of it; think positive thoughts. It is your own fault and you shouldn’t blame it on anyone else. It’s not the fault of hormones, chemical imbalances, or sad situations. It isn’t hereditary, and people could get over it if they tried. The world is full of people who aren’t really sick. Depression isn’t a disease.” Everything that was previously said is absolutely false. However, this is the way that much of the world views MDD—“major depressive disorder” or depression and it needs to stop. I get frustrated by people who just “don’t get it”. If people…
A Romantic Blessed Mom of 5; Mental Health Advocate, with a Creative, Victorian Soul.
