Help for the Early Challenges of Parenthood: Part 1 of 4.
Babies put a huge strain on relationships. With a second child the stress is logarithmically increased. Your life will be savagely altered by the needs and demands of parenting. At times, you will be exhausted and hurting.
You may find yourself taking out your frustrations on your spouse. Their failings may be magnified by your own frustrations with how life is unfolding in these days of personal loss, massive sleep deprivation, life shaking responsibility, and deep heart stopping joy. Sigh. The first year of parenthood can be emotionally very confusing.
Learning Disabilities or Learning Differences?
The first thing you need to know about learning differences is they are truly often differences and not disabilities. The list of brilliant people who struggled with these so called learning disabilities is huge. Really, really, HUGE! Steve Jobs, Michael Phelps, Whoopi Goldberg, Steven Spielberg, Jammie Oliver, Charles Schwab, Richard Branson, Anderson Cooper, Magic Johnson, Agatha Christie…on and on the list of great minds goes. Each of them labeled with dyslexia or dys-whatever-ia.
