Caregiving, Challenges, Hope, Living Life Daily, Love, Marriage, Special Needs Parenting
Cindi Ferrini
Moms: When Do We Get to Celebrate?

Moms: When Do We Get to Celebrate? Celebration for moms is scheduled in May; but I’m wondering when does it really happen? Cindi Ferrini writes about Mother’s Day and how to celebrate moms to kids with special needs.

Moms: When Do We Get to Celebrate?
Caregiving, Challenges, Living Life Daily, Love, Hope, Special Needs Parenting
Evana Sandusky
When Moms Need Correction

Evana Sandusky writes about her experience receiving correction as a special needs mother, and explains why gentle correction may be more important than we think.

When Moms Need Correction
Adoption, Caregiving, Challenges, Grief, Hope, Living Life Daily, Marriage, Love, Special Needs Parenting
Key Ministry
Darkness to Light

Joel Sheagren writes on the intersection of his 30-year career in film-making and his parenting journey, as he parents a son with FASD.

Darkness to Light
Caregiving, Challenges, Church, Hope, Marriage, Love, Scripture, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Growth
Key Ministry
What If My Family Doesn't Fit at Church?

What DO you do when a child works harder to escape a room than he does work the puzzles at the table? How can you possibly know where the boundaries should be with a child who inherently has none? Where is the line between nurturing and structure? While there aren’t clear answers to these questions, there IS clear theology about our family’s place in the Body of Christ. Sherri Wirt writes a short devotional for special needs parents that feel they don’t fit at church.

What If My Family Doesn't Fit at Church?
Autism, Caregiving, Challenges, Living Life Daily, Special Needs Parenting, Summer Vacation
Jolene Philo
My Favorite Vacation Planning Tips for Special ...

Jolene Philo gives 10 vacation planning tips for families with special needs! Jolene Philo will be speaking at Disability & the Church 2024 in Orlando, FL May 1-3! Go to www.keyministry.org/datc2024 to register now.

My Favorite Vacation Planning Tips for Special Needs Families

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Haircut, Sir?

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Haircut, Sir?

My son James has his hair cut about four or five times a year. As long as we keep to a routine, all is fine. Any change would be enormously difficult for him, and therefore for us. The reason I share James’ haircut story is to illustrate that routine and familiarity are fundamentally core to the coping mechanisms of many children and young people with additional needs. And just like the routines followed by special needs families, churches have opportunities to make similar choices regarding children and young people with disabilities in church-based work as well.

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How Do I Know If My Special Needs Child Can Have Faith?

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How Do I Know If My Special Needs Child Can Have Faith?

It’s a question many Christian parents of a child with special needs or a disability ask, and it’s a question that can be really hard to answer, especially when the child in question has limited communication. But perhaps there are clues that we can piece together: things that Jesus did, or understanding the ways our child responds to God. In exploring this, it might stretch and grow our own understanding and faith in God, too.

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Why Additional Needs Parenting Is Like A Poker Game

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Why Additional Needs Parenting Is Like A Poker Game

Whatever your experience with the game of poker, there is a lot about the game that is very much like additional needs parenting.

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Children of the Bible and My Autistic Son

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Children of the Bible and My Autistic Son

The Bible is full of stories about children and young people: Mary, Joseph, David, Samuel, Esther, the widow’s son and Elijah, Naaman’s slave girl, Jairus’ daughter, etc. In thinking about some of these stories, I found many parallels in their stories and my son James.