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Back to School, Back to Uncertainty

August 15, 2016 by Barbara Dittrich 2 Comments

Is your shopping done yet?  Have you nailed the best deals on all of the supplies on your child’s class list? Is the smell of new athletic shoes and fresh clothing purchases permeating your house yet? While it all sounds so hopeful, if you’re house is anything like ours, there’s a slow, sickening churning of the stomach beginning.  Back to school feels as uncertain it does exciting, especially … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Barbara Dittrich, Living Life Daily, Transitions Tagged With: back to school

7 Tips For Summer Gatherings

July 13, 2016 by Barbara Dittrich 1 Comment

Please tell me I am not the only one who cringes with mixed emotions about summer get-togethers!  I love the warm weather, time outdoors, and opportunities to connect in a relaxed setting.  Still, I know these reunions, weddings, graduation parties, and family picnics will get my children's diagnoses to be noticed in ways I would rather forget. I fight dread anticipating the comments from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Barbara Dittrich, Behaviors, Living Life Daily Tagged With: advice, comments of others, community, family, summer

Bitter or Better?

June 8, 2016 by Barbara Dittrich 15 Comments

I can remember it like it was yesterday. The sassy, obese mother of a teenage boy on the autism spectrum, sitting there each week as her son’s adaptive aquatics class overlapped with my young son's session -- We would chat on occasion. She was always so snarky, spouting off about her useless husband, her irritating teenagers, and the limitless ways life had done her wrong.  I swear there was a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Barbara Dittrich, Living Life Daily Tagged With: bitterness, perspective, self-care

7 Ways Special Needs Have Made Me a Wealthy Mother

May 11, 2016 by Barbara Dittrich 4 Comments

Since I was a little girl, I had a fierce desire to become a mother.  I could not necessarily articulate the reasons why I had this burning aspiration within me, but it was relentlessly rooted.  I can even recall my classmates laughing at me in second grade when I gave my simple answer to the teacher's what we wanted to be when we grew up inquiry, "I just want to get married some day and be a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Barbara Dittrich, Living Life Daily Tagged With: motherhood, transformation

Mom’s Worst Critic

March 16, 2016 by Barbara Dittrich 8 Comments

Have you heard her sneering, nasty thoughts? “Can’t get it together!” “Doesn’t do enough for her child!” “Babying him!” “Gosh, no one else complains at the school like that!” “So demanding!  So chaotic!  What a mess!” “If only those signs weren't missed, there might be a better outcome.” “Oh, my goodness! Should have caught that problem much sooner... Missed some important opportunities... … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Barbara Dittrich, Living Life Daily, Peace Tagged With: doubt, fear, special needs parenting guilt, trusting God

Not As Rare As You Think You Are

February 17, 2016 by Barbara Dittrich 3 Comments

Raising a child with a chronic illness, disability or special need can often be a bone-achingly isolating existence.  The stares, exclusion, judgment, and hurtful comments can sometimes make caregivers like us feel like we are serving time in a penal colony, far from the comfortable normalcy of the average family. Without realizing it, well-meaning family and friends can push us further to the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Barbara Dittrich, Cerebral Palsy, Epilepsy, Hidden Disabilities, Medically Fragile Tagged With: Elijah, isolation, mentoring, rare disease, Snappin Ministries, World Rare Disease Day

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