Moms of Special Needs Kids

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A place for moms who deal with those special challenges in raising their kids and use social media as a way to connect.

Members: 325
Latest Activity: 16 hours ago

Welcome to the place for Moms raising children with special needs. I am fairly hands off in running the group, but have been known to delete comments that are clearly promotional in nature. Enjoy the community.

I dedicate this song to all of you:

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Share Your Child's Abilities 13 Replies

About a year ago I started a monthly blog post on my blog called Ability Tuesday. The first Tuesday of each month I share one of my daughter's abilities, not her disabilities. Today is the first Tu...

Tagged: sharing, Abilities

Started by Debbie Yost. Last reply by Maureen Doolan Boyle Sep 24.

Let's introduce ourselves! 50 Replies

This is the place to talk a little bit more about our children. My boys are now 14 and 10, and Konal, the 14 year old, has multiple disabilities. We have in home support from Arizona's behavioral h...

Tagged: introduction

Started by Krista Long. Last reply by Kim Cristo Nov 11.

Twitter ID's 18 Replies

Hi everyone~ I think sometimes it's nice to be able to know that I'm (we're) not the only one going through battles through the day, keeping our heads on straight and love in our actions. There ar...

Started by MiaHysteria. Last reply by BH Aug 27.

What is your child's (children's) special need(s)? 19 Replies

I really am interested in meeting other moms who face similar challenges as we may have to (my daughter is still undiagnosed -- waiting on a skin biopsy). I thought it might be helpful for all of u...

Started by Carrie. Last reply by Jean Myles Sep 3.

Do You Have a Special Needs Blog? 52 Replies

Hello Everyone~ I just started a discussion for twitter id's, but also thought (half way through the post for that one) that knowing each other's blogs might be nice too. I have a blog that highli...

Started by MiaHysteria. Last reply by Kim Cristo Nov 17.

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Comment by Jill on October 4, 2009 at 3:28pm: Sharing my most recent post: my endless, autism to-do list, which I usually make when I'm half asleep- http://ow.ly/sDKm
Please let me know what you think!
Jill
www.blisstree.com/autismvox/

Comment by Jill on October 4, 2009 at 1:40pm: If autism has a to-do list, it might look ilke this: formed when you're half asleep, and never, ever done. http://ow.ly/sDKm

Comment by Lisa on September 23, 2009 at 7:04am: Please stop by to check out some of our Children's Video Series at http://bit.ly/8dJia

Comment by erica kelsey on September 17, 2009 at 8:00am: Female Handbags get more exciting here and like never before. Check out http://www.pavinastore.com

Comment by Jean Myles on September 16, 2009 at 7:03pm: Thanks Karen! I left a comment on there for you.

Comment by Karen Griffith Gryga on September 16, 2009 at 12:03pm: Just wanted to share my most recent post on "What I Would Want a Mother of a Typical Needs Child to Know". http://www.lipstickwisdom.com/2009/09/15/what-would-i-want-a-mother-of-a-typical-needs-child-to-know/

It was actually very difficult to answer. Several of my readers have responded very strongly to this video. It might be interesting to you too. Take a look.

Thanks,
Karen
www.lipstickwisdom.com
www.twitter.com/lipstickwisdom

Comment by Jill on September 10, 2009 at 12:57pm: Awful story about Abercrombie & Fitch mistreating a teenage girl customer w/ autism ... they got slapped with a $115K fine, I was glad to hear:
http://www.blisstree.com/autismvox/its-all-in-the-understanding/

Comment by JP Shaw on September 10, 2009 at 1:00am: My blog post on my son http://www.rantsnrascals.com/2009/09/hes-just-like-everyone-else-all-he.html

Comment by Jill on September 9, 2009 at 11:50am: Maybe I'm taking this spectrum thing too literally but this week we're showing gorgeous images of rainbows (and rainbow things) on our blog.... come look! http://ow.ly/oHJb

Comment by Jill on September 8, 2009 at 3:57pm: My son has a growing love of the circus - we went yesterday to celebrate the end of summer and the beginning of school, and I'm really thankful we can see a live performance as a family.