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

We always have a choice in how we react to events that happen to us. Getting wet from the rain, can have some beauty in it.

Having a disability does not impede us from having strengths. In reality, having a disability leads us to developing strengths we didn’t know we had, like the capacity to adapt rapidly. This story illustrates just that.

Cleverness in parenting does not require us to be abled-body. It only requires a little bit of creativity!

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?

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.