New York feature for Cafe Mom: Christmas is beautiful & overwhelming

As a parent to children with high additional needs, it can be a roller coaster of emotions. It’s beautiful, overwhelming, terrifying, and rewarding all at once. There are days where we don’t know how we survived and days that we want to relive over and over.

We are not able to just celebrate any given occasion. Attending someone’s house requires a huge amount of planning, explanations of what behaviors may appear and there is a big possibility we may only last five minutes at your home. Celebration days are normally extremely stressful and isolating for our family and so many others.

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Mum proposes alternate school terms for special needs kids

“If there was even the remote possibility of shifting the school year for special needs kids by a few weeks or a month, I believe the impacts would be felt immediately!” Kathrine says.“ The benefits for businesses would see an increase in client interactions throughout the year and for the neurodiverse community hotels, theme parks,

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Yahoo Lifestyle: Challenges at Christmas Time

“Christmas in our home has had more misses than hits to be honest,” Katherine tells Yahoo Lifestyle. “But this year I think it will be different. Two of our boys have started to understand the concept of gift giving so our tree will be full of toys that hopefully delight.” Katherine says despite the high rate

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