Warrior Mother Takes on FASD

Red Shoes Rock honors the FASD pioneer - Birth Mom,Warrior Mom, Karli's Mom Kathy Mitchell - Thank you! Moms who drink while pregnant need Hope. Kathy is the sword of truth that cuts through the darkness. Shared by Jodee Kulp I met Kathy Mitchell at the FASD Teen Adult Camp in Michigan in 2004. ThisContinue reading "Warrior Mother Takes on FASD"

Early Diagnosis Changes the Game

In this year of 2022, let's review the past to move ahead in creating the appropriate changes for the present.

Introducing Children With Learning Disabilities to the Arts and How It Helps Them

Step out in the New Year and discover ways your children can grow with creativity.

Red Shoes Rock #FASD Aware – Ask me about my #RedShoes

Go celebrate and get some "new RED SHOES" to start stepping out to build FASD Awareness.

99 Days to 9/9 FASDay: Master Post

Looking for the MASTER LIST of FASD Fact - Check out Yvonne Williams Blog Page - You Red Shoes Rock this Yvonne! We are always looking for local translators to put our their own blog in their own languages.

CANFASD: COVID-19 TIPS FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH FASD — Northwest Peace FASD Network

Information about COVID-19 or coronavirus seems to be all over the news these days. The government is recommending that Canadians practice “social distancing measures”, which means that people should stay home and avoid contact with one another. Events have been cancelled, schools and daycares have been closed, and the daily routines in workplaces are changing. […]CANFASD:Continue reading "CANFASD: COVID-19 TIPS FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH FASD — Northwest Peace FASD Network"

When Going for a Walk is a Radical Act

Once again, Sandra, you reach into the hearts of parenting – living, laughing, and loving a person with FASD

My every move cannot be about others. And I really do feel sometimes like I have lost a bit of me.

SB's avatarFASD: Learning with Hope

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By SB_FASD

Stop presses!

Breaking news!

I went for a walk today.

Not a going-to-buy-slime-ingredients walk.

Not a this-dog-is-climbing-the-walls-and-needs-to-get-out walk.

Not a going-to-catch-the-train-for-work walk.

No, this was an honest-to-goodness walk. Alone. Just for me.

They talk about muscle memory. My body remembers. I once ran hard and smoothly over cross-country courses, around the lines on painted tracks, on beaches and up and down steep hills. I was, once upon a long time ago, a runner. When I stopped running, I used to go for intense walks, every morning at a fast pace, before I even had a coffee.

I was driven, in part, by the horrible illnesses my dad faced through those years. Heart attacks. Surgeries. Diabetes. Amputation. Strokes. Feeding tubes. Early death. Ironically, the closer I get to his age of death, the more lax I have become about my own health.

I can talk a good talk about…

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Ripe Time to Connect FASD Pieces

Red Shoes Rock honors the FASD pioneers - Dr. Paul Lemoine, Dr. Christy Ulleland, Dr. David Smith - Thank you! For over 100 years physicians had known that alcohol crossed the placenta. And many believed children of problem drinkers had defects related to poor genetic stock rather than to alcohol exposure. Historically, there were seasonsContinue reading "Ripe Time to Connect FASD Pieces"