Posts Tagged ‘differences’
Helping People Who are "Different"
I have never focused on politics in my Born Just Right world. I have shared the challenges and concerns I have with the process of building prosthetics and detailed how we’ve worked through services that support Jordan and kids like her. I shared moments about Jordan’s three-year-old reaction to when Barack Obama became president. I…
Read More +Celebrating Differences in Finding Dory
Leading up to the release of Finding Dory, I heard so many tales about how special needs played a big role in this movie. But I wanted to see it to believe it. This Pixar movie series has been an important part of our special needs parenting lives ever since Jordan was born. Nemo and…
Read More +Using Playgrounds to Change a Kid's View
Every once and a while, Jordan meets a little girl or boy who is frightened of her arm. They have never seen any person with a physical difference and it frightens them. When Jordan was little, these kids would make her really upset. Watching someone cry over your physical appearance is really hard. Now that…
Read More +Why Jordan totally connects with Frozen's Elsa
When we took the kids to see Frozen last year, we all connected to it immediately. We loved the music. We loved the story. We loved the girl power. But deep down, we really appreciated Elsa, the ice queen, and her struggles. I thought about it almost immediately. Elsa has magical powers that make her…
Read More +Joining In On Dove's "Beauty Is" Conversation
During the Sundance Film Festival, Dove released a short film about selfies. And just like its beauty campaign from last year, I feel the need to write about and participate in this new campaign. If you have eight minutes, watch how girls and their moms learned how to accept themselves for who they are with the…
Read More +A special needs parenting perspective
I feel it’s super important to share where my brain is right now… I think it’s in hyper-sensitive mode but it’s an important sensitivity. I am a special needs advocate from the perspective of a parent. I can’t offer perspective from a person with special needs. So I think it’s incredibly important to listen and…
Read More +A changing view of special needs
For many years, Jordan has expressed little interest when I’ve introduced her to other kids with limb differences or any other type of physical challenge. Most of the time she would react with little to no emotion and focus on just about anything other than the cool difference I was point out to her. Lately,…
Read More +Sharing my passion at #140conf
I’m in Hutchinson, Kansas attending a 140 Characters Conference. Today’s topic is a collection of stories from small towns. If you like Twitter, you can see the discussion with the #140conf or #140confsmalltown. This is an opportunity for anyone to pitch an idea to speak about for 10 minutes. My topic? How my job taught…
Read More +Now you see it. Now you don't.
It hit me as I drove to work. My two kids are so very different and their challenges in life are in many ways very opposite. And the fiery sibling rivalry that roars between them is possibly fed thanks to their individual challenges. After spending a lot of wonderful time with the special needs community…
Read More +I'll admit it. The first day of school made me teary.
She did it! Jordan had her first day of Kindergarten and we all lived to tell the tale. Okay – that’s probably over stating it, but I had hoped the first day of school would go well. Jordan and her teacher worked together to help her classmates understand her limb difference. So here’s how it…
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