Tag: challenges for siblings
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The Doctor
Hey, peeps! Its Hannah. Again. Now, I would like you to imagine that you and your sibling are at the doctor’s office. Suddenly…. Your sibling starts crying and trying to run away from the doctor’s office. You are watching peoples’ uncomfortable stares. This is me. Tony HATES going to the doctor. What can I say?…
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Summer With a Disabled Child
IT’S SUMMER! Time to go to the pool, have a BBQ, a picnic, go on some sort of vacation, get a front row seat for 4th of July fireworks… Or IS it? You see, a disabled kid might struggle with these things. LOUD NOISE 🙁 Imagine this: Your 10 year old child is begging to…
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A Hero & A Villain
Catzilla. His Royal Fluffiness. Dickens the Destroyer. Best Friend. Cat Moose. Hero. Villain. Like many of us, Dickens was complex. To the members of our family he was different things at different times (as we all are to the people around us), but at the end of the day he was loved from the first…
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Torn Between the Two
I could hear the sound of children talking excitedly and calling to one another before we even crossed the doors. Inside, the noise was everything you would expect from an elementary school assembly devoted to building school spirit and honoring the achievements of certain students. A few teachers were leading some of the kids in…