by jphilo | Nov 14, 2014 | How to Use the Caregiver's Notebook, Vlog Series
Welcome back for Episode 2 of The Caregiver’s Notebook vlog series. This video provides ideas and tips about how to fill out the emergency information section of The Caregiver’s Notebook: An Organizational Tool and Support to Help You Care for Others. In it, you’ll also learn how to keep the information up-to-date and how to create emergency packets that can accompany your loved one wherever he or she goes.
Who Needs The Caregiver’s Notebook?
The Caregiver’s Notebook to meet the needs of those dealing with a wide variety of caregiving situations. Here are some of them:
- Adult children caring for aging parents.
- Spouses caring for husbands or wives.
- Parents caring for babies, toddlers, young children, and teens with special needs.
- Parents caring for adult children with special needs.
- Parents caring for typical babies from birth through age 3.
- Senior citizens in good health who want to have their affairs in order for whoever will care for them in case of sudden illness or accident.
So if you or someone you know is in any of those situations, the video below is for you! After all, emergencies can happen to anyone at anytime. So once you complete your loved one’s emergency information and create packets, you can do the same thing for yourself–with or without another notebook.
To watch this How To episode, click on over to DifferentDream.com.
by jphilo | Oct 17, 2014 | Different Dream for My Child, Vlog Series
Friday is here again, and that means it’s time for you to be pampered with a read aloud from a devotional for parents of kids with special needs. Today’s devo, Words of Peace, comes from A Different Dream for My Child: Meditations for Parents or Critically or Chronically Ill Children. Those of you who have been in the hospital with your child–or hospitalized waiting for your baby to be born–know what an unpeaceful place it can be. But on the most difficult day of Wayne and Sandy’s lives, they found words of peace to calm their souls on the wall of a hospital room.
To watch Words of Peace, click on this link.
Photo Credit: Serge Bertasius at www.freedigitalphotos.net
by jphilo | Oct 10, 2014 | Different Dream for My Child, Vlog Series
The Different Dream vlog series is back with another Friday edition. Today’s devotional, Scrubbing In, comes from the hospital section of A Different Dream for My Child:Meditations for Parents or Critically or Chronically Ill Children. It’s about one of those maturing moments that are part and parcel of becoming the parent of a child with special needs, a maturing moment that changed the way I view hospital protocols and what I had to do to become the mother our son needed. No tissue warning with this one, though you may develop a hand washing compulsion if you watch it too often!
To see this vlog, click on this link.
Photo Credit: Jack Thumm at www.freedigitalphotos.net
by jphilo | Oct 3, 2014 | Different Dream for My Child, Vlog Series
Friday’s here, so it’s time for a new episode in the Different Dream vlog series for parents of kids with special needs. Though if you’re not a parent, you are welcome to stick around for a peek at what it’s like to raise children with special needs and disabilities. This post is the last one in the diagnosis section of A Different Dream for My Child: Meditations for Parents of Critically or Chronically Ill Children.
It’s called “Aching Arms,” and I had to record it two times before I could get through it without crying. The memory of holding our baby without a single tube or wire makes my eyes fill with tears every time. If you get teary at stories like that, grab a tissue before you watch the video below.
You can watch the “Aching Arms” vlog post at DifferentDream.com.
Photo Credit: phanlop88 at www.freedigitalphotos.net
by jphilo | Sep 26, 2014 | Different Dream for My Child, Vlog Series
Happy Friday to you! You’ve arrived just in time for today’s read aloud for parents of kids with special needs. Today’s episode in the Different Dream vlog series comes from the diagnosis section of A Different Dream for My Child. It is entitled Your Dreams Change.
In this installment you’ll hear from my friends Doug and Brenda. They share how their dreams for their children changed when their son was diagnosed with special needs and later their daughter was, too. So get a cup of coffee if you like and then enjoy!
You’ll find the vlog post at DifferentDream.com.
