Parenting Your Child with Special Needs

Preemies Today-Creating Holiday Traditions Podcast!!!

Last Monday, I co-led a tele-conference with Preemies Today founder Mary Beth Hazelgrove called Creating Family Traditions or How to Stay Healthy and have Fun Together.  With permission of the callers, the one hour meeting was recorded and theDownload Preemies today 121508 is available for listening at your convenience. As a follow-up, I compiled a brief handout which can be shared with family and friends explaining the issues with illness and how it can affect a premature baby.

Our next tele-conferences are scheduled for Friday, January 16th and 23rd, 2009 at 1:00 ET/12:00 CT/ 10:00 PT and we will be discussing discipline and the impact of prematurity on sensory development. Plan on joining us live and participating in the conversation. If you would like to register, send me an email!!!!

Dealing with Discipline

Last night we had a great discussion during our telephone support group with mom's of children with medically complex issues about Dealing with Discipline. Our discussion centered on different definitions of the words parenting and discipline and how they can be used in similar and different ways. We talked about how to provide a balance between providing direction and structure and yet not wanting to be too strict because of the potential for the child’s medical condition to influence understanding and cause more problems.

Discussion centered on the experiences of each mom relating to their child’s current discipline needs.