Are you being the best leader you can be for your child?
Have you ever had people tell you what to do and you thought, ‘Yes, I know that already.’
Then you discovered later, in real life situations, that what your thought you knew was not necessarily what you really know!
You would not have known what it would feel like being a parent to a child with special needs, that is, until it is your own child.
Pure intellectual understanding is vastly different from knowing through your own experience. And even then, ‘knowing’ can happen on so many different levels.
The transition from thoughts to truth understanding takes time.
The reality of understanding involves experiencing the emotional waves, that over time, leads to a realization of what it really means to live out a thought that was once perceived in your mind.
In my work with special needs children, I have observed many parents going through this journey, from Understanding to Knowing. I see them changing, over time, the paradigms of what they think or feel would best support their child’s development.
This is a very gradual learning process.
With the best of intentions, parents might hope that a specialized therapy could be the answer to helping their child. They entrust their children into the hands of therapists expecting these ‘experts’ to fix their child, sometimes forgetting their own important role in their child’s progress.
When they see that their child is not improving as expected, these parents will tend to feel helpless.
My ultimate goal is to help parents, like yourself, realize the important role you have in your child’s ever-changing and evolving life.
Not just as a parent who naturally loves and provides for their child but truly understanding the important role that, as a parent, you have in supporting you child’s development through your daily interactions with them.
Furthermore, I would like to help you tap into the wisdom of your own experiences to make better informed decisions for your child’s well being.
No matter what the therapists, myself included, say or what the doctors recommended, as a parent, you need to step back and look inward to see what feels right for your child.
Of course you will need to do the proper research to help support your decision, but in the end always go with your intuition and choose what feels right for your child.
Once you take on this responsibility fully and trust the power of your own intuition, you can never go wrong. Detours are normal in life but they often happen only to once again set you on the right path.
Now give yourself a pat on the back for all the good work you have already done so far and for reading this far.
Take another deep breath. Be patient. And keep going!
