Insights for Families
Supporting military-connected children and their families through education and community.
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Military Service Shapes Entire Families
Military service shapes entire families, not just those who wear the uniform. I learned that early in life through my stepfather, who served in the Air Force during Vietnam, and later through my own family when I married a disabled medic veteran who also served there. His back injury and PTSD affected all of us, […]
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The Right Help
The Right Help We live in a time when the internet is overflowing with noise—endless information, opinions, and contradictions. Everything can be challenged, and with so many voices speaking at once, it’s hard to know where to begin, let alone what the right thing is for your child. On top of normal life—on top of […]
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PCS Season
The PCS season starts earlier than you think.It usually hits right after the chaos of the holidays. You get the kids back to school and can’t catch your breath—you hit the ground running with preparations, and then you ride the back-and-forth wave(from Jan-June)—the one where you try to keep one foot in the life you’re […]
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Too Many Goodbyes
I was pregnant with our youngest son when 9/11 happened. In the first ten years of his life, Daddy deployed 11 times. Even when he was stateside and considered “home,” Dad was often still traveling for work. The leavings were hard, but so were the homecomings. There was this unspoken pressure put on the limited […]
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Life as a Mom with ADHD
I remember the day my son’s kindergarten teacher held my hands and pleaded with me. She was a patient, experienced and gifted teacher who absolutely loved my firecracker baby and I had learned to trust her. It was January and she knew she only had half a year left with him. She looked me in […]