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What’s it Like to Parent Two Mentally Ill Children?

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Several years ago, Susan and Michael Schofield learned that their daughter, Jani, had been born with schizophrenia. The couple had a second child, a son named Bodhi. At first, they believed that Bodhi was born without any mental illnesses. As time went on, they learned that Bodhi also has some mental health issues. What’s it like to parent not one, but two, mentally ill children? Michael and Susan Schofield decided to publicly share their story about parenting a child with schizophrenia when their daughter, Jani, was six years old. As an infant, Jani did not sleep for more than half … Continue reading →

The Bedroom TV

My father just offered to purchase a television for my daughter’s bedroom. I’m still waiting for John Quiñones to pop out of my hall closet because there’s no way my dad’s proposition can be legit. He’s testing me right? Like Quiñones does to all those unsuspecting individuals on “What Would You Do?” A new flat screen TV for my 8-year-old’s bedroom… riiiiight. From a guy who refused to allow me to touch our family’s TV, which didn’t move from its spot in the living room.  The same dad who mandated that an egg timer be set each time me and … Continue reading →

Saving Money When Shopping for a New Bed

It is time for my daughter to get a new bed. We spent on Saturday two weeks ago visiting a couple of stores and pricing out twin beds. The requirements for us were that the twin bed should be white, probably wood, have a headboard and a foot board, and be sturdy enough to carry her through until she leaves for college and maybe beyond. Going shopping online and in the retail stores was a real eye opener. We hadn’t shopped for a new bed for about eight or nine years. Since then, it seems, the quality has gone down … Continue reading →

Mama’s Got The Bedtime Blues

Many parents of toddlers have trouble with bedtime. Bedtime battles come and go throughout toddlerhood, and it can be the most trying time of day. By a certain time in the evening, you are ready for your toddler to go to bed – especially if he or she did not take a nap earlier in the day. Dylan has been pretty good about bedtime for the last month or so. I start to set the stage for bedtime by having dinner on the table by seven each night – or as close to seven as possible. If Dylan did not … Continue reading →

Insurance Blog Week in Review – March 25 – 31, 2012

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Every week, the Insurance Blog Week in Review is the blog to read if you would like a quick summary of everything that posted in the past week. It is a good way to make sure that you didn’t miss anything. This time, the majority of the blogs had something to do with the Affordable Care Act. Health Insurance Approval Letters Should Include Cost of Premium I believe that there should be a law that requires insurers to tell consumers the cost of the premium for the health insurance policy they were approved for right in the approval letter. I … Continue reading →

Bedtime

One of the hardest things as a single parent is not having any control over your child when they are at their other parent’s house. If they choose to feed them ice cream for breakfast, lunch, and dinner there’s not much you can do about it. Just chuck them full of vegetables when they get home and hope for the best. You’re used to being the bad cop, right? Bedtime was always our fight. When Logan was really little and we were still married, my ex worked late. He often wouldn’t even get home until 10 or 11 o’clock at … Continue reading →

The Monster in My Bed

This little monster doesn’t hide out under my bed, he crawls in it every night causing his mother lots of sleepless nights instead. When my ex husband and I first got divorced our son had a lot of changes all at once. Mommy and Daddy didn’t live together anymore, we moved in with Grandma and Grandpa, he moved from the crib into a big boy bed, and instead of having his own room he got stuck with Mommy. So when he insisted on sleeping in my bed at first I didn’t mind too much. He was going through a rough … Continue reading →

There’s an Insurance Billing Code for Everything

Hospitals use medical billing codes to succinctly describe to an insurance company the type of medical services that a patient received. There used to be around 18,000 codes that doctor’s could select from. This is being updated to around 140,000 codes. It seems that there really is an insurance billing code for absolutely everything. Federal agencies have developed a system called ICD-10. It stands for International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision. This update greatly expands the number of billing codes that doctors can use to describe to a health insurance company what, exactly, a person was treated for. It is … Continue reading →

Two Sets of Conjoined Twins in the News

Conjoined twins is the term used to describe babies who are born with some portion of their body physically attached to the body of their sibling. This is a rare occurrence. Recently, in the news, there have been stories about two sets of conjoined twins, from two different families. Only around 1 out of every 50,000 pregnancies result in conjoined twins. Even fewer, around 1 in every 250,000 sets of conjoined twins make it to a live birth. Many die before that can occur. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, the overall survival rate for conjoined twins is around … Continue reading →

The Two Nap Day

Normally our son takes one nap a day. Depending on when he went to sleep the night before and when he decided to wake up that morning are normally accurate gauges for when we might expect him to take his daily snooze. Since summer has been in full swing for so long it’s been more common to have a late night, a late morning, and a late nap each day. This system, of course, perpetuated itself. The late rising kept a late nap and a late bedtime. At any rate, the one nap day has been his common operating procedure … Continue reading →