Posted in Advocating for special needs, Celebration, Education, Impact, accomplishments, bride, cancer, charity, commitment, courage, emotions, family, finances, giving, health, help, home, inspiration, legal, life, love, medical, mental and physical health, mom, mother, school, special needs, support, wedding, tagged body language, cancer, challenges, child, communication, divorce, Education, emotional, encouragement, financial, health, Impact, inspiration, love, obstacles, physical, powerful, professionals, support, teachers on May 31, 2008 | No Comments »
Support is a simple enough word; but, more importantly it is a powerful tool. My dictionary says this about support: To hold or bear weight, to tolerate, to give assistance, approval or aid.
Quite often we hear the word in association with divorce as in spousal or child support. This is usually in regards [...]
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Posted in Advocating for special needs, Education, Faith, adoption, children, communication, elderly, family, foster parenting, health, help, kids, mental and physical health, parenting, religion, special needs, stress, well-being, tagged accomodations, autistic, banned, behavioral issues, caregiving, challenges, church, classroom, dangerous, disabled people, disruptive, environment, Faith, foster parent, instructors, peace, priest, restraining order, restraints, set aside a pew, skills, special needs, stress, struggles, teachers, trustee, untrained, Update, vacation bible school, volunteer on May 19, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Here is a story i could sink my teeth into since i am the parent of several special needs children. A young boy, by the name of Adam Race, has been banned from the church that he has attended since 1996. He has been banned because he is autistic, and is very large. He has [...]
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Posted in Faith, Family Time, Fear, Heart, Remembering, commitment, courage, crime, emotions, health, help, inspiration, joy, life, loneliness, loss, medical, mental and physical health, mother, news, pain and misery, resilient, sadness, safety, self doubt, sick and tired, stress, success, support, trauma, violence, well-being, tagged healing, depression, children, challenges, life, father, suicide, birth, health, destruction, relationships, mother, freedom, joy, well-being, neglect, personal, survival, prison, therapy, abuse, 24 years, psychiatry, victimized, oppression, human spirit, resilience, negativity, past, obstacles, Elizabeth Fritzl, Austrian, overcoming, devastation, fearlessly, fully, professional help, victory, determination on May 15, 2008 | No Comments »
For those of you who have been depressed, despondent, abused, neglected, suicidal, victimized or just oppressed; know this, the human spirit is subject to change at any moment…it is resilient. The absolutely amazing thing about going through any of those difficulties in life, is that it has the potential of either destroying a person, [...]
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Posted in Beauty, contest, entertainment, mother, tagged challenges, life, baby boomers, Dreams, entertainment, Dancing With The Stars, Priscilla Pressley, splits, discovery, acting, Elvis on April 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This weeks departing contestant from Dancing With The Stars was Priscilla Pressley. Yeah, this weeks performance wasn’t magic but..man..i hope when i am 62 that i still want to be challenging myself to do things that i am not sure that i am capable of doing. Like get real…this lady did the full out [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Beauty, Carrie Ann, challenges, dances with the stars, entertainment, Julianne Hough, Passion, perfection, Performance, shine, skills, time to go on April 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Wow, last night’s Dances with the Stars was good. It is never a dull show. From Adam Carolla’s interesting display of a paso doble in a cape an performed in the beginning on a unicycle. Hmmm…entertaining yes, dancing…not so much. I know he has a following and he is funny…up to a point..usually at the [...]
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Posted in Opportunities, Time, pain and misery, tagged Opportunities, challenges, mortgages, Time, depressed, military, role model, skills, happiness, talents, lonely, angry, Life is Flying By, spending, debt, satellite, shuttle, scandal, steriods, exporting of US jobs, Cuba, mass shootings, credit card debt, school lunches, radio, television, cell phones, computers, energy, organizations on February 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I remember as a teenager being told by my “elders” that the older I would get, the faster it would seem like “Life was Flying By”. Well, i hate to admit it but they were right.
It seems like things are just moving so fast and there is so little time that it is [...]
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Thanksgiving…the meaning of it all to me is understanding that everything good in life is a gift. We must remember our manners and thank the one who provides it all; God.
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Posted in Advocating for special needs, Education, Impact, Opportunities, Teamwork, help, kids, law enforcement, legal, mental and physical health, organizations for special needs, parenting, school, special needs, success, support, tagged certificate of completion, challenges, depression, diploma, illness, legal trouble, purpose, special needs, what's available on October 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I dont know about every state….but here in michigan, a special needs student that graduates high school and gets a diploma cannot continue to receive educational services.
If that same student, instead, chooses to get a certificate of completion; they are entitled to educational services through the schools until they reach the age of [...]
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