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Recent Insurance News for State of California
Here is recent important information for autistic Californians. The following information comes from Autism Deserves Equal Coverage. “Starting Monday, September 15, 2014, Medi-Cal is now required to pay for behavioral therapy for individuals aged 0-21. Please share this information with your networks to ensure that families understand their rights under this new opportunity. This a…
Deadly Food Allergies: From A Teen Who Has Them
This article was written by a 14 year old girl dealing with life threating food allergies. Hey Hun, my Mom tells my Dad, Lets stop at the market for groceries, perhaps we can we go to Whole Foods for dinner? Were getting groceries, so it might be easier to eat there. And, we want to celebrate! Great idea! he says.Crap. I thought to myself.And why not celebrate? We had just come …
Divorce Lice
My soon-to-be-ex-husband just texted me from an airport 400 miles away. I was expecting to hear from him. He was about to put our 12-year-old daughter on a plane to fly to me for two weeks vacation at the beach. In fact, I was grabbing my car keys to leave for the airport to collect her at the gate. I stopped when the text popped up. My first thought: maybe the flight was delayed. Or …
Why We Are Like Mama Bears
When my sons and I finished watching BEARS, the Disney Nature movie, I never thought my life would parallel that family of bears so much. The journey that the Mama Bear takes with her two cubs is really no different than the journey that we modern day parents are taking with our children. Like the Mama Bear I need to teach my children so many life lessons to survive in this world. The necessary life …
Kids With Special Needs Siblings – Do They Get Lost?
This guest post was written by Kathy Chlan from unfilteredmom.com. I have 2 boys – 21 and 18. The oldest, Casey , is my son with special needs. Christian is the other one. I have struggled with the notion that I hope Christian didn’t get lost. Christian was born 8 weeks early and was always on the go. My mom said it was like he was never a kid. He just immediately knew he had …