Accessible playgrounds are important for boh children with and parents with disabilities. We all have the right to play!

Parenting can be hard when our children have long days, filled with excitement. As parents, it may then be hard to manage, but this is why parenting is a great social act. When one parent can’t manage, another can take control of the situation. And a disability does not impede our ability to do so.

People with disabilities also want to experience the outdoors, including national parks and beaches. Beaches can be made inclusive with the use of this special wheelchair.

When we see someone with a disability, we too often assume they are dependent and require help. Which leads us to giving assistance quickly, automatically and too often without even asking. Even when help is not warranted nor required.

Because most of us do not know enough about disabilities, our tendencies are to oscillate between wanting to be kind and needing to back off. This conundrum more often paralyses us: should we offer help or should we go on with our own business?

Not everyone likes to workout.

But many will make the effort to access a breath-taking viewpoint!

And even if most of us will want to experience those breath-taking views with the people we love the most, there are still too many of us who won’t have the pleasure to experience it due to lack of accessibility.

No one likes or wants to be left behind! But as a disabled mother, I sometimes don’t have a choice. Because of lack of accessibility, if I want my son to experience the World, it often means I have to let him experience it without me. Read about my choice to staying behind while in Hawai’i.