Photo by Felix Mittermeier on Unsplash Having anxiety myself, I knew it was likely I would pass it on to my children. Research has shown that anxiety has a genetic inheritability rate of 30-67%. You can read more about the genetic aspect of anxiety HERE. I also realized from my own experiences that being around someone anxious can […]
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Photo by Roberto Nickson on Unsplash I wasn’t sure that I should have children, I didn’t think I had the right hereditary background for it. My family has a long list of mental illnesses in its lines. I hate when I go to a new doctor, or take my children to see a new specialist, and I have
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Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash Watching Dino relax is like watching a hummingbird hover in the air. He might be in one place, but he never stops moving. This means that he often drops things, spills food and drinks, tips out of chairs, or even worse, crashes the whole chair to the floor. We have tried the
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Photo by Wayne Lee-Sing on Unsplash The last several years of the pandemic have been rough on everyone. For me, my mental health and physical health have both been in a steady decline. I have never been an active person, but when I worked part-time as a teacher I was on my feet three days a week all
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Photo by Caleb Woods on Unsplash IEP meetings can bring out a cold sweat in me sometimes. Worrying about how my children are progressing, wondering if they will want to cut services, and hoping I can advocate for another year of what they need. When I first began my journey as a parent in the special education system
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Photo by Katie Treadway on Unsplash My children cannot stand the Amelia Bedelia books. I loved reading them growing up, the absurdity of ways that she misunderstood idioms and phrases. For anyone who hasn’t read these books, Amelia is a housekeeper who takes everything she hears literally. If you say it is raining cats and dogs, she will
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