Nothing Wrong With A Little Hope Nine years ago this January, my spouse and I drove by a two-story house with a deck on the back and two giant maple trees out front and knew this would be our future home. I mean, we didn’t know know, but there was a “For Sale” sign in… Continue reading Everyone’s a Fortune Teller When It Comes to New Year’s Resolutions

When Quitting is Winning When I was fifteen, I told my mother I wanted to “go into” fencing. I was ready to make a career out of it with the giant onesie and chest pads and face guard and epee (a term I knew only from crossword puzzles). Why had I decided this? Looking back,… Continue reading How to Know when to Quit

Charlie, who is ten, has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair to move and a speaking device to communicate. We are on the cusp of something to navigate...

Want a More Productive Conversation with Your Child’s Caregivers? Build a Sandwich I discovered the “sandwich method” long before I had kids. As a high school English teacher, parent conferences could go one of two ways: beneficial or brutal. Humans are sensitive creatures and parents of teenagers are the most sensitive of all – there… Continue reading The Sandwich Method

The Ultimate Accessibility-Friendly Fall Bucket List I love a good list. It’s what keeps me both collected and adventurous – whimsically organized, if that’s a thing. Autumn is my favorite season for list-making. Perhaps it was all those starts to a new school year as a kid or simply because this season feels like it… Continue reading Accessibility-Friendly Fall Bucket List

The new school year is here and it is beginning to find its swing. Our kids are taking tests, and quizzes, and being assigned papers and projects. It’s happening! As parents, we often think about how to help our children who struggle with poor executive functioning skills such as time management, prioritization, starting a task,… Continue reading New School Year, New Executive Functioning Strategies

Does my Daughter Have ADHD? When you think about ADHD, your natural tendency may be to envision a little boy who falls out of his seat at school, or who asks a ton of questions while his teacher is presenting a lesson.  You may even imagine a teenage boy who is lost in his thoughts… Continue reading ADHD in Girls Going Unnoticed

I think we can all agree that the beginning of this school year has been an “interesting” one. Here we are, post-pandemic, two and a half years since our worlds were turned over, upside down and inside out. The vibe in my house has been a bit off since the start of the school year,… Continue reading Post-Pandemic Back To School Blues

How Toys Can Reflect Diversity & The Differently Abled Growing up, my favorite toys were always cars, trucks, motorcycles, and action figures— He-Man, Gi-Joe, Superman and Star Wars. My sister preferred Barbie, My Little Pony and Care Bears. However, when I look back at the early objects that influenced me, they were all able-bodied with… Continue reading Toy Diversity: Inclusive Youth

Diaper need is the inability to provide enough diapers to allow for babies and toddlers to be changed as often as necessary. 1 in 3 US families struggle to provide enough diapers to keep their babies and toddlers clean, dry, and healthy. Since the pandemic there has been an 86% increase in the number of… Continue reading National Diaper Need Awareness Week