I’ve been thinking a bit lately about all the time and energy that Parents of Special Needs children expend. We can truly move mountains for our kids. Mountains of paperwork, mountains of professionals who don’t want to listen to us, mountains of physical and medical issues. But what if we didn’t have to and all our children’s needs were met and we could expend that energy and time elsewhere?
The parents I know would change the world. So much of our time is spent fighting to just exist. The schools, insurance companies, and doctors don’t see even a fraction of what we are capable of if it didn’t take everything that they had to make sure our child is fed, happy, and alive. (Believe me, they wouldn’t want to see us if we weren’t completely drained because they would lose every time.)
Personally, I have to parcel out my energy for fighting battles. I have to be in the right mood and my anxiety levels down so that I can wage war. Because it truly is like waging a war so much of the time.
Parents, Grandparents, and Caregivers give your self a pat on the back. You are SO capable the world wouldn’t know what to do if we weren’t so busy with everything else.
