I got some great feedback from my post on Monday, I Stand Corrected. But one of my favorite comments was from Best Buddies themselves, the topic of my awakening. I had commented in my blog that I had new respect for the organization after witnessing firsthand the benefits of this organization at my daughter’s baseball game. Honestly, [...]
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Jun 20th
I stand corrected.
There is one attribute that I quite like about myself – the ability to realize I might be wrong and to admit it. A few weeks back, I was at my 12-yr old’s baseball game. She has Down syndrome and plays on a local team for kids with physical, mental and emotional disabilities called the [...]
Jun 15th
Do our actions say something different?
I think the disability community needs to reconsider how we present ourselves to society. This thought overcame me as I was walking out of my neighborhood grocery store and saw a copy of our local woman’s magazine with a beautiful blond woman and two kids on the cover. The childrens’ positioning was unnatural and seemed [...]
Jun 13th
A Nation of Can’ts
There are people out there who live in the world of ‘what Can’t be done’ or ‘what people Can’t do’. I don’t want to live there. Lots of people think our family lives in the world of Can’ts because our daughter has Down syndrome. But last week, as I dropped my soon-to-be high school senior [...]
Jun 7th
Disabilities – Is Our Reality – Reality?
I have been thinking a lot about this lately. Am I being real about disabilities? Last week I told the story about taking my daughter, who happens to have Down syndrome, to the swimming pool and how I dreaded all the stares. Despite all my worrying, it ended up being a great day with one [...]
Jun 2nd
Why I dread the swimming pool.
My family loves to go to our community swimming pool – so why do I get so nervous every Memorial Day Weekend? Because I have to put my 12-yr old daughter with Down syndrome out there again. And every year at the beginning of swim season, I have to endure those looks. We rarely have [...]