Greetings to anyone visiting from the Blog Hop Party. The Simple Life is all about parenting a special needs child with an eye on spiritual life issues. Feel free to browse my archive by date (see sidebar left) or by topic. I happened upon the Blog Hop Concept by visiting Steady Mom, and since it was timely decided to join up. However...
Normally Friday is a "news item" post, so I wanted to take care of business, too. Here's another subset of special needs parenting that I hadn't thought about before. Consider serving your country's military and parenting a special needs child at the same time. I cannot imagine how challenging it must be to find new resources and routines at each new assignment. What happens if you're deployed to a combat situation? It is difficult enough when you're rooted down in a peaceful suburb like our family is. The Defense Department established the Exceptional Family Member program to assist such families. It seems there is some confusion about how the program works. I'd be interested to hear from any parents that are currently enrolled in the program about whether it has been helpful to you or not.
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Howdy! Here from the Blog Hop.
My husband's cousin and his wife have 4 children, and they have each served tours in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq. I don't know how they have done it with healthy kids, and I surely admire anyone who does it with special needs kids.
I am unabashedly grateful for their service, though. Truly.
Nice to meet you! I'm stopping by on the Blog Hop.
Just stopping by from the Blog Hop. Have a great weekend!
I love that you have your blog set up so if you post every 3rd day you know what category you will be posting about.. ok.. here's a word for you... ORGANIZED!!! wow are you ever.. Me I am a fly by the seat of my pants kind of gal.. very disorganized with a great dream to someday enjoy "The Simple Life" by being more organized.
I am hopping around the blogs.. feel free to stop by and visit my blog
Have a great day!
Nice to meet you from the Blog Hop.
Okay, how amazing are you? So together and organized! I have a special needs child too - been fighting for his education since we found out. Truly wonderful to meet you!
Wow! You are an organizational inspiration lady! We have a special needs child also and have been fighting for his education for years.
So wonderful to meet you!
Stopping by from the blog hop to say hello too. I also have a special needs child! Have a great weekend.
So great to see you! Been a long time. How has your writing journey been?
Hi everyone,
Thanks for coming by. I will return the favor as soon as I recover from a crazy weekend!
Tasra - this is my main writing project for now. I still have some other things in mind, but don't have the time needed to do them well. They're percolating, so to speak. Hope you're doing well!
Stephanie - yes, we do not say thank you enough to our troops for all they do.
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