“I have grown up and gone to school my whole life with people who basically look like me, think like me and believe the same things I believe, and that’s not the real world.”
‘This was not in my plan.’: Mom’s difficult time accepting son attending college 13 hours away
‘It was a shock to both of us.’: Couple with 23-year age difference fall in love after losing children on same day
“It seemed like more than just a coincidence. It was fate saying, ‘Here is someone who knows how you are feeling.'”
‘I went on a date today – with my son.’: Touching way this mom prepares her son to be a ‘perfect gentleman’
“When these sweet little boys grow into almost-men and I watch them escort a girl to the car for the very first time, I hope to beam with pride as they walk around to the passenger side to open her door first.”
Kids’ Work Ethic Is In A Crisis And We, The Parents, Have A Lot To Do With It
Work ethic is similar to a muscle. It can be strengthened with proper training, or weakened with misuse.
‘He couldn’t stand. His legs were completely limp.’: Mom donates kidney to save medically-complex son
“And so, it began, test after test, specialist after specialist.”
‘You’re moving way too fast. If he loves you, he’ll wait.’ Were we crazy? Maybe. But were we in love? Absolutely!’: Couple move in together after 6 weeks of dating, get married 6 weeks later
“I was pushed into signing up for Match.com by a friend. For 3 weeks, I received message after message from guys who didn’t understand that my kids came first. But one day, I received a message from a man who took the time to read my profile and challenged me to prove that I did, in fact, make the best chocolate chip cookies in the world. Little did I know it would change the course of the rest of my life.”
‘I never signed up for this’: Mom of severely autistic daughter thanks the ‘difference-makers’ who ‘deliberately’ step into the world of autism
“They learn to see what others can’t see in your ‘difficult child.’ They love what other people would find unlovable.”
A Letter To My Little Brother Living With A Disability
“Dear Isaac, I know you can’t ever read this but maybe one day I will read it to you. Maybe one day you will understand.”
‘My mom crossed the border, so I could cross the stage.’: Family details ‘inspiring’ immigration challenges
“Ask me for my papers and I will show you my Bachelor’s.”
‘He said she looked fine, but that my milk probably didn’t have enough calories in it for what she needed. It felt like someone had taken a knife to my chest when he said that’
“I stripped her down to a dry diaper and walked her to the scale. The numbers seemed to take forever to stop scrolling… but when they did, my heart sunk. I gazed down at my sweet Lucy, her skin just sagging off of her.”