Justino and Silveria – Their Story Should Be Made Into a Movie

by DebW August 24, 2011 7 comments

In a small community where the people had next to nothing, they shared with us what they had . . . boiled potatoes, lacoto (spicy cabbage), and a bit of fruit. This is the place [...]
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Hope Comes Through a Hole In the Wall

by Lolli August 13, 2011 3 comments

As I was checking in with our sister sites this week, a post on 5 Minutes for Special Needs by Laurie, mom of four girls – two with bipolar, ADHD and developmental delays, really stood [...]
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Twitter and Social Awareness

by Lolli June 4, 2011 0 comments

As I was checking in with 5 Minutes for Mom’s sister sites this week, I was struck by a post by Kimberly from The Simple Life. In her post on 5 Minutes for Special Needs, [...]
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We All Want The Same Things

by Lolli May 21, 2011 0 comments

This week, as I was checking in with our 5 Minutes for Mom sister sites, an article by Kimberly of As one who has been a mother now for almost 15 years, I have talked [...]
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Get Kids To Listen Without Nagging, Reminding or Yelling

by Janice May 18, 2011 10 comments

I adore my kids — I am completely in love with the little monkeys. But, many days I feel like a parenting failure — giving in to nagging, not keeping on schedule, being too permissive, [...]
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How a Lawn Mower made this Little Girl an Amputee at Three Years Old…

by Janice May 16, 2011 6 comments

Five years ago, a mom blogger named Kari lived through a nightmare most parents would never even dream about — her not-yet-three year old daughter was accidentally run over by her father as he mowed [...]
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Losing Her Voice

by Lolli May 14, 2011 0 comments

After reading Janice’s account of Susan’s ear drum bursting and her subsequent hearing loss at BlogHer last summer, this post on our sister site, 5 Minutes for Special Needs, by Debbie really struck a cord [...]
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Better Hearing and Speech Month

by Janice May 13, 2011 4 comments

This past summer, Susan learned — very painfully — how delicate and precious our hearing is. We were on the plane flying to NYC for BlogHer10. Susan had just flown home two days before from [...]
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Thank You, Moms!

by Lolli May 7, 2011 0 comments

In honor of Mother’s Day and the many mothers who have influenced our lives and our children’s lives, I thought I’d share this post from our sister site, 5 Minutes for Special Needs by Tammie, [...]
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Holly Robinson Peete Fights for Autism on Celebrity Apprentice

by Jennifer Donovan April 18, 2010 5 comments

The Celebrity Apprentice is one show that my husband and I enjoy watching together. In true “reality TV” form, I generally yell at the people on screen for being stupid, ignorant, or saying something that [...]
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