Inspiration & Humor
“Words of inspiration lift the spirit, boost morale and nudge you in the direction you want to go. No two people are inspired quite the same way, and what inspires is as unique as the sound of your laughter.” (Learn How To Get Inspired, by Isabella Gladd) This page is dedicated to smiles, giggles, and all things that refresh and lift the spirits of those who visit here. If you'd like to share something that tickled your funnybone, or gave you a new outlook on difficuties you have faced living with 22q, please contact us!
Brene Brown on Vulnerability
Love Notes For Special Parents
You Are Strong
by Terri Mauro
How often has it happened -- an acquaintance hears your story or sees your child and says, "I'm not as strong as you. I could never deal with all the things you deal with." And you shake your head modestly, and brush it off, and maybe even feel a little condescended to.
But you know what? They're right. You're strong. You're facing things that the average parent doesn't even want to imagine, and you're handling them. Whether you were strong to begin with or had strength thrust upon you by necessity, you're one strong parent, one strong person.
Your family needs that strength, your children thrive on it. You may wish you never had to be so strong. But appreciate that strength now. It makes you special. Capable. A force to be reckoned with.
You Are Strong
Copyright © 2006 by Terri Mauro
Terri Mauro has two children with special needs: a 20-year-old with language-based learning disabilities and a 17-year-old with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, both adopted from Russia in 1994.
Experience:
Terri is the author of 50 Ways to Support Your Child's Special Education and The Everything Parent's Guide to Sensory Integration Disorder. Her website Mothers With Attitude, offering "humor and help for adoptive moms, special-needs moms, any old moms at all," was recognized as a USA Today Hot Site and a Good Housekeeping Site of the Day. She has been working as a writer for more than 25 years, and has been an editor for Hallmark Cards, First for Women magazine, and Food and Wine cookbooks.
Education:
Terri received a BA in Literature from the College of Creative Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1981.
From Terri Mauro:
Almost everything important I've learned about raising my kids has come, in one way or another, from fellow parents of children with special needs. We can be an amazing resource for each other.
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