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20 Things I Know Now, That I Wish I Knew Then (The Special Needs Parent-Ninja Arts)

Jan 21, 2015 | Categories: "How Can I Help?", Advocacy & Awareness, Dads, Grief & Loss, How to help, Humor, Recent Diagnosis, and Uncategorized. Tags: control freak, Dads, faith crisis, Faith Rehab, Grief & Loss, How Can I Help?, how to help, recent diagnosis, and surrendering control.

From time to time I get asked, “Do you have any advice for a Special Needs Parent?” It’s usually from someone freshly reeling from their child’s diagnosis, or a friend who wants to be supportive. BLESS THEM. To which I say (or think), Ohboyohboyboy! (and start mentally salivating.) I devoted this blog on Special Needs parenting to discuss exactly that: The...

How Superheroes Decompress: Respites & Shawarma (A Tribute to Volunteers)

May 20, 2014 | Categories: "How Can I Help?", How to help, Humor, Joni and Friends, Ministry and kidmin leaders, Mommy Martyrdom, Parent Support, Special Needs Ministry, and Uncategorized. Tags: control freak, Fun that works, How Can I Help?, how to help, humor, Joni and Friends, Ministry and Kidmin leaders, One Body, and Special Needs Ministry.

Confessions of a Respite Groupie Hello. My name is Diane. And I am a self-professed Respite Groupie. If there’s a church respite event within a 45-minute radius of our home: We. Are. There. “Neither rain, nor sleet, nor dark of night…” Whatever, man. We are there. It’s the only event I’m ever on time for. It blows my mind that a group...

On Motherhood, Meals & Mayhem | Mother’s Day 2014

May 6, 2014 | Categories: Loser Mommy Moments, Mommy Martyrdom, No, You're Not The Only One..., and Uncategorized. Tags: Asian, control freak, humor, motherhood, mothers day, and Parenting.

Breakfast of Chumpions One winter morning in 1988, I ran out the door on my way to school. I was late, per usual, so I skipped breakfast. High school seniors are too cool for breakfast anyway. My mother wasn’t having it. She chased me out to my car in her pajamas, and pressed a half-eaten SKOR bar and Coke into my hand. “Must eat something!” she insisted. A Coke and a candy...

Why This Special Needs Tiger Mama Bear Didn’t Intervene

Nov 12, 2013 | Categories: Don't Diss Disability (DissAbility), Humor, Letting go, letting God, and Uncategorized. Tags: Asian, control freak, humor, surrendering control, and Why?!.

There are helicopter parents, then there are Special Needs parent stealth bombers. How this Asian Special Needs Tiger Mama Bear (I know. That’s a lot of mixed metaphors) nearly became a weapon of mass destruction and ravaged a playground when her cub got threatened. Why I didn’t intervene. ******************************************** It was a classic Special Needs Mama Bear...