We’ve all been down paths we probably never thought we’d explore when we first decided to have children.  Having a child with mental health issues can take us on such wild rides.

  

Do you feel like you could write a book on your experiences?  I’m sure most of us do, but we tell ourselves that we aren’t writers.  A few of us have taken the time to write an occasional Blog about our experiences.  When I have read a Blog on parenting a child with mental health concerns, I almost always have the same reaction–I feel comforted to know I am not alone.  There is someone out there like me!

 

With this in mind, we have started to add a new element to our Family Sanity website and our communications–Blogs written by parents in the Family Sanity community.  The topics will be familiar ones–sending your child to a special program or school; the isolating teen; school refusal; and the evergreen topic of technology addiction.

 

Our first Blogs we will post were written by a former Willows in the Wind parent who pens a Blog called My Warrior Mom Life.

 

We welcome your contributions as well.  Your Blogs about parenting need not be long at all.  Send us whatever you wish.  And if you want to expand the range of topics, feel free.  Why not write about self-care or when your frustration reached its peak. (I told my husband that I wanted to run away.)

 

Please email me your Blogs.  Remember, almost all of us can relate.

 

Look forward to seeing you at a meeting,

 

Lisa Scimens

Family Sanity Founder

lisascimens@gmail.com

www.familysanity.org