Asthma, language delay, ADHD, ASD, sensory issues, physio, OT, speech therapy… I’ve had to learn a lot about this stuff since becoming a parent. Thankfully, none of my children have any diagnosed disorders at present, and life is fairly smooth.
But every six months or so, it seems that one or another of my children will go through a rough patch that is so extreme as to need professional attention. Along with the stress of thinking that ‘my child has ISSUES!!!’, there is the stress of finding time for appointments, finding baby-sitting for the siblings, interrupted schooling, learning a whole new area of developmental theory, and the unavoidable thoughts of ‘what have I done wrong?’.
So you tell me: how do you cope when one of your children has ‘issues’?
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