Earlier today I was reading some of those Hey Girl pictures that people have crafted out of Ryan Gosling pictures and I thought: HEY GIRL! Someone needs to make some of these for special needs parents.
And then lo and behold, a mere 6 hours later I log into Facebook and see a link to this: Special Needs Ryan Gosling. Hilarious! Really well done…but not quite the issues of the ETLbHTR child, for the most part (although there’s overlap, of course. Lots of overlap).
So I made a couple of my own.
These are dedicated to all the moms (and dads, of course – you can be honorary “girls”) who are parenting children with invisible disabilites. The kind of brain-based issues that are VERY REAL, but that you can’t see just by looking at the kid. The kind of behaviors and problems that we deal with all the time here at Easy to Love but…
Adrienne Bashista is the co-editor of and contributor to the book, Easy to Love but Hard to Raise: Real Parents, Challenging Kids, True Stories. She writes about parenting a special needs son, advocacy for special needs parents, and FASD (Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder). She lives in North Carolina with her husband, two sons, dogs, chickens, and bees.
Love it! Just pinned them too!
brilliant !!!
(and omg … I could look at him awwwwlllll day)
Love this! Thank you for using your creativity and wit to make us stressed out, but very loving and caring, moms feel a little better about these tough decisions!
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P.S. I think I just fell in love with Ryan Gosling
Adrienne, I love your blog!
Adrienne, even as an honorary girls, I think us dads would be so grateful if you could do at least one of these as a “Hey Guy,” with Angelina Jolie.
Thanks,
Honorary Girl Frank
@Frank – that is an excellent idea. I will think about it.
and @Stephanie – thank you so much. It’s really a group effort!