A birth, an accident, old age, cancer, a heart condition, a stroke….the list is endless. In a matter of seconds we can all have a life altering event. Just when we think we have life figured out it throws a curve ball and we are now trying to figure out the new world we have been thrown into. When my life has met these challenges I have approached the problem in one of two ways:
#1 – I attack it head on and I am proactive at finding a solution.
#2 – I dig in my heels, hide in my bed, and resist the inevitable. I will get to it in the morning!
My first child was diagnosed with ADHD Extreme. My training started with him. I had to start figuring out the “Problem” (what made him react a certain way, how to change his environment to improve his behavior, where was the limit and line I couldn’t let him cross) I had to study his behavior, create a plan, and carry out that plan.
Many times the plan didn’t work and I had to change the plan through trail and fail, reevaluate and attack it again. My son’s behavior started my training. The mom training for the curve ball, life was about to throw my way.
My son taught me to PERSEVERE.
I have learned to hold my ground.
I have had to figure out and research how to help my child to the best of my ability.
I have learned to implement the plan and if the plan fails to let the plan go and start again.
I have learned to be an advocate in my children’s care and fight for what was best for them, even when the idea wasn’t the typical answer.
And then I learned to pick up my feet and DO IT.
I know how it feels to have life change in a matter of seconds. It started with my son but it didn’t end with him. A few years after I had my first child and as I was learning to work with his behavior I prepared to welcome my third child. Little did I know that my life was about to be completely changed and I would enter a world I know very little about….
Being a parent of a special needs child.
Gail
Persevere 