Life with a Cerebral Palsy Teenager take 2

Well, this will be my last entry in my blog. I hope that my life experience with dealing with Lupus when pregnant to Life with a Cerebral Palsy child has answer some of your questions. If not I hope that this has been interesting information. I hope that you will not have to experience any of these situations, but if you do I hope you will remember some tof the things I talked about. This is a current picture of my son, Cameron.

Life with a Cerebral Palsy Teenager

I am not an expert in this part of Cerebral Palsy teenager, mine is 16 and things are changing for him about as fast as I can type...maybe faster. As a tween he became more aware of his deficiencies so as a teenager trying to fit in is even harder. He doesn't want to be considered a kid with a handicap, but he doesn't feel like he can fit in. Encouraging you child to be part of High School activities is extremely hard, they don't want to let down their teammates but it's important for them to be involved in something. With this in mind we encouraged our son to attend all of the High School football games. We thought it would be best for his self-esteem to attend these games without us. The one time that we did attend he knew so many kids I was shocked. I know that in his own way will make his mark in high school, he won't be the best athlete, a drama geek or a math genius, he will be the kid that everyone will remember trying his hardest and never let his disability bring him down.

Life with a Cerebral Palsy Tween

Toddler years was hard!! Tweens is harder! This is the time of every kids life when they realize that they are not like their parents and want more independence. The problem with kids with CP is that they still need to have their parents help them out. As a parent you want to teach them to be independent, but you know that they can not fully understand what it means to be responsible for their own actions. Now, I know Tweens with no challenges have these issues with their parent, the difference with mild CP kids is that it's more noticeable by their peers and they can easily be minuplated. Always keep in mind that CP kids do understand it just takes them longer.