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 | Nov 7, 2014 | How to Use the Caregiver's Notebook
In case you didn’t hear the big YAHOO at our house on November 1, Discovery House Publishers has officially released The Caregiver’s Notebook: An Organizational Tool and Support to Help You Care for Others. With the cat book officially out of the bag and caregivers can actually purchase the book online and at bookstores, it’s time to offer even more support.
What kind of support? How about a vlog series that walks caregivers through each section of the notebook? Think of it as week-by-week virtual hand holding sessions that allow you to complete the notebook at your own pace and according to your own schedule. Today’s vlog introduces the series. It offers information about what’s in the notebook, who it’s for, and when to begin using it. That gives those who don’t yet have the notebook time to purchase it before the next vlog post goes live next Friday. Sound good? Then let’s get started.
To watch the first Caregiver’s Notebook episode, click on over to DifferentDream.com.
by jphilo | Oct 31, 2014 | Different Dream for My Child, Vlog Series
The Different Dream vlog series is bac for another Friday read aloud from A Different Dream for My Child: Meditations for Parents of Critically or Chronically Ill Children. Maybe this week has been a particularly long and trying one for you. If that’s the case (and even if it’s not), now is your time to enjoy a little pampering. So grab a cup of tea, kick off you shoes, put up your feet and have a listen to this week’s selection, A Gentle Touch.
The story describes our first glimpse of our newborn son in NICU after major surgery in 1982. In the decades since, many NICU protocols and practices have changed. But one thing hasn’t change a bit. Our hospitalized children need the comforting touch of their parent to heal faster, and parents need the touch of a loving God to stay strong while their children recuperate.
To listen to this episode in the Different Dream vlog series, click on over to DifferentDream.com.
by jphilo | Oct 24, 2014 | Different Dream for My Child, Vlog Series
Welcome to my little gravel road. You are cordially invited to join the weekly story time for parents of kids with special needs over at DifferentDream.com. Once again, you can just sit back and relax, close your eyes and listen while someone does the work. How often does that happem?
This devotional is part of my book for parents, A Different Dream for My Child: Meditations for Parents of Children Who Are Critically or Chronically Ill. “Be Kind and Gracious” comes from the section about being in the hospital with a child. Naomi has 5 kids, 2 of whom have been hospitalized repeatedly. She explains the importance of exhibiting grace and kindness to those caring for a hospitalized child.
To view this vlog, hop on over to the DifferentDream.com post, Be Kind and Gracious.
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
