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Every Child Deserves a Miss Honey
As a child one of my favorite books was Roald Dahl’s Matilda. Having dyscalculia, I related to how Matilda was often misunderstood and looked at as “odd” by her family and classmates. Like Matilda my mind would also wander, I imagined myself on grand adventures, solving problems, being a hero to my friends and defending…
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Five Ways to Fill Your Cup
In thinking about National Family Caregiver Month, I was reminded of a previous Mothers on the Frontline podcast episode in the Just Ask Mom series, called “Filling up your Cup”. In it Alissa explained the phrase, “my cup runneth over” in a way I needed to hear as a caregiver. “What runneth over is…
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New Diagnosis, New Beginning
A lot has been going on behind the scenes here at Mothers on the Frontline. We have been busy doing interviews, working with our amazing team of Grinnell College Student Workers to prepare our first Podcast Series “Just Ask Mom”, learning about the creation and accessibility of websites, and so many other things completely new…
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Welcome and Please Excuse the Mess
Years before getting my Ph.D. I worked as an academic counselor in Student Affairs. It was there that I learned to do what I called a “temperature check” with my students, I would ask every student during their weekly visit whether they were swimming, treading, or barely able to keep their head above water. It…
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Where to begin…
Sometimes it’s hard to know where to begin. Mothering a child with special needs is overwhelming, all the more so the systemic problems preventing kids from getting needed services. Mothers on the Frontline started with one simple idea: Mothers have unique insights into the needs of their children. Not an earth-shattering idea, is it?… Or maybe it is a…
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