Joseph Louis Tan is a son, brother, designer and lecturer at Ngee Ann Polytechnic. His mom was a former athlete who represented Singapore in track and field events, and is now a housewife who works as an administrative assistant at…
“Most of the time it’s more the parents’ hangup at first thinking their kid is going to not show the same affection to them, when it’s actually usually the kid that teaches mom or dad that they just want to…
“Some people with disabilities have a hard time fathoming how they could care for a child and end up missing out on something that deep down they’d really like to experience in life.” Amy Saffell wants to overturn the (misinformed)…
Feeding a baby without moving your fingers takes some adjustments, but with a little practice and creativity, it’s possible. Not only does Meg Johnson have an awesome bottle holder her friends fashioned by her friends to attach to her wheelchair…
Your child’s pacifier is on the floor out of reach and you don’t have a reacher, what do you do? Meg Johnson, a quadriplegic mom, had to figure out how to retrieve her daughter’s pacifier after fell on the floor on the…
Meg Johnson, a quadriplegic mom, demonstrates how she styles her baby’s hair. Her adorable daughter sits on her lap while Meg combs her hair and puts in a small clip that doesn’t require Meg to use her fingers. This is…
Meg, a quadriplegic mom, sings an adorable bedtime song to her toddler, Zula, stuffed animals included. Her daughter is dancing practically before she starts singing, an obvious fan of the tune. Meg has come up with a way that allows her to hold…
“We roll with the punches everyday,” Nikki, quadriplegic single mom, shares about her and her two young kids taking on the world together. https://youtu.be/u_Pu2pCdAYo Deciding to be a mother Following in the footsteps of her grandmother and mother, Nikki knew she…
“Parenting can be challenging…and a lot of the things are parallels with an able-body.” Marie became a mother after she became a quadriplegic and learned all her tricks in the years raising her now college-aged kids. From keeping herself in…
“There was a lot of guilt when I was pregnant,” Marie shared about being pregnant after becoming a quadriplegic. “I felt like, I could barely take care of myself, how was I going to take care of another child?” Despite…