Fighting for Answers
  • Home
  • Blog
  • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • How we came to be.
  • Articles
    • Mental Health Awareness
    • Reaching for life
    • A Treastise on Bullying in our Public Schools
    • About Parenthood
    • Advocacy – A review of Wright’s Law
    • Fix, Repair or Toss? Vacuum Repair
    • Lost and Tired’s “Autism Help” app is here
    • LRE ~ Least Restrictive Environment ~ defined
    • New Site Feature — Featured Site
    • Pulling on the Elephant’s Tail
    • School Authority – Part 1
    • School Authority – Part 2
    • Special Needs Causes: The Great Bike Giveaway
    • WordPress Distinctions ~ Hosted vs. Shared
    • Graphics Set and Autism Awareness Month Kick Off
    • When I was your age…
  • Sunrise Attitude
  • Disclosure Policy

Category Archives: Mental Health – Child

Mental health articles relating to a condition your child might have can be found here.

Ending violence in America

Ted Nugent recently penned a column regarding the violence in Ferguson, stating ““killer” liberalism is the real problem, Nugent concludes, and only by renouncing it will African-Americans finally see their lot improve.” I know what Liberalism means. How can renouncing “Liberalism” end violence? Is violence limited to that African-American population? I think not. For those so inclined, you can click on the word Liberalism for a definition. What I would like to know, is:  Does Mr. Nugent know what Liberalism means? The key to ending violence isn’t renouncing “a political or social philosophy advocating the freedom of the individual, parliamentary systems of government, nonviolent modification of political, social, or economic institutions to assure unrestricted development in all spheres of human endeavor, and governmental guarantees of individual rights and civil liberties.”  After all, individual rights and civil liberties are what make this country what it is.  This is what enables Mr. Nugent to be the gun

read more

Tags: African American, family, liberalism, mental health, TedNugent, violence ·

Collin Haluska’s Burn Recovery

My friends, Last month, the son of a dear friend of ours was burned in a tragic accident.  He will be a long time in recovering.  Tragically during this time, the home that the family was renting has been sold and now they have to move.  Collin goes to wound care 2 times a week at 100 miles round trip each visit.  In addition, mom, who is a stay at home mom, has taken on the role of caregiver and nurse, in addition to being mom and driver. The cost of care associated with a burn of this magnitude is extraordinary and has rapidly depleted the families savings. Now, because Collin has missed so much school, and will miss many more, the family is faced with hiring a tutor for him until the school district kicks in and picks up the costs.  If you can help please follow this link. 

read more

updates. the weekly call

So I get called every Friday night.  at 10:30.  I asked for it to be that late in the day. It is just me.  Every one else is asleep.  I can talk freely about David, his week, his needs and make recommendations for the staff. Last week, David called and told us about this girl who he thinks has a crush on him.  He wanted to know what I thought he should do.  So I explained. It is ok for a girl to like you. It is ok for you to like a girl. It is probably against the rules in your facility for you to have a girlfriend. So this week, during the report, he primary said that he is different this week than they have ever seen.  Not asking for snack, not eating his favorite snack.  Appearing sullen and withdrawn.  And the staff thought that they heard David

read more

Tags: autism, emotion, love, puberty, sullen ·

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • Email
  • LinkedIn

Recent Posts

  • It’s okay to be angry.
  • Becoming a “Dad” to my Dad.
  • Two Weeks Post Discharge
  • The adoption misconception
  • An open letter to the naysayers

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 1,117 other subscribers

Previous
Next
copyright 2018