community and resource for families of special needs children from China
This has probably been a familiar scene at some point in your home … your young toddler child is sitting in the middle of the floor throwing a temper tantrum. Tears are streaming down her face, her nose is running and her hair is matted to her face. She’s kicking the floor and screaming … [...]
I love this word in Chinese: 明白, or, if you do not have Chinese fonts installed on your computer, it is “Ming bai”. Little Lukai whom will arrive in Canada on Nov 24th! Now, why do I love it? Because it means “to understand”. Or, to “see clearly”. Literally, I think it means something like [...]
Ping: Dad! Dad! DAD! Me: What’s up baby? Ping: Can you take my picture?!Me: Of course! Let me get the camera. Ping: YAY!… a few seconds later … Me: Okay baby, smile for Daddy! Ping: What? No. I no smile. Me: But you gotta smile for the picture. You gotta look cute.Ping: I want you to take a picture of my [...]
Hello, my name is The Yeti…… and I am a Coward. Ping enjoying a horse ride, even with Spina Bifida Now, I’m not ALWAYS a coward. There are many many things in life which I face bravely. I can wrestle with bears wrapped in bacon… but for the life of me, children scare me. Now [...]
Miss Jubilee has been home a little over a year now. This is the place where we write about special needs and our children with special needs. Way back when we began pursuing kids with special needs my husband, Dw, and I came to one conclusion: The only true special need any child has is [...]
Our daughter Ping has Spina Bifida. Normally her Special Need doesn’t impact her day to day activities. There have been the odd emergency trip to the Spina Bifida Clinic… and the numerous check ups, and test, and MRIs, and neurology type things… but other than that… her Spina Bifida has not been on the forefront [...]
When we found Jubilee and requested her file, we were well aware of her diagnosis of ”Lower Mental Development”. In fact, it drew us even more to her. Somewhere in there though, I wondered if maybe Ch*na had it wrong. I mean, “Lower Mental Development” could be just learning delayed, right? We already had [...]
Since I’ve become a mom to a child with a visible special need, I’ve noticed something interesting about the way some people perceive me. Many people, from our guides in China to friends who know our schedules with various specialists to random strangers in grocery lines, want to promote me to sainthood. They say things [...]
The 27th day of the month. It is the day I am supposed to post. Stefanie may fire me if I don’t. Seriously I have so much I want to say and yet I can’t find the words, and even more I am so not ready to share so much. I know those who may [...]
As much as I’d like to put a protective cocoon around her and be her voice among other things, I can’t. Let me preface this entry with two things: my heart is in my throat these days as we wait for our final piece of paperwork to travel to China for our sons, and our [...]
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