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One Bad Mother

Episode 553: Everything No One Tells You About Parenting A Disabled Child, with Kelley Coleman

One Bad Mother

Biz Ellis and Theresa Thorn

Moms, Kids & Family, Motherhood, Theresa Thorn, Comedy, Biz Ellis, Podcast, Parenting

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Lost and in the dark about your child's disability? Not anymore! Kelley Coleman, author of Everything No One Tells You About Parenting a Disabled Child: Your Guide to the Systems, Services, and Supports, sits down with Biz to talk about educational resources, the beauty of an amazing index, and the major of Trader Joe's.

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0:00.0

This is Biz and this is the final season of One Bad Mother.

0:04.6

So join us this last year as we remember to Judge Less,

0:08.7

laugh more, and celebrate all the OBS who have been on this journey with us.

0:14.7

This is still a show about life after giving life,

0:17.6

and yes, there will be swears.

0:20.6

This is one bad mother. This week on One Bad Mother,

0:25.0

on One Bad Mother, wouldn't it be great

0:29.0

if there was a book that helped me figure out a place to start

0:32.0

as a parent of a disabled child.

0:35.4

Well, we talked to Kelly Coleman, the author of that very book.

0:40.8

Welcome, Kelly.

0:44.0

Thank you so much for having me and for having a sense of humor about all the things.

0:50.1

Holy cow, we just don't laugh about all the stuff.

0:54.4

If you don't, you will be a...

0:56.4

I mean, look, I am as haggard and broken as they come.

0:59.6

But like, if we couldn't laugh about it and be and sadly this is the sad the

1:06.8

sad trip is that the humor are the things that we all find funny

1:14.7

come from such a place of like brokenness sometimes,

1:17.7

or tiredness or exhaustion, or likeness, or exhaustion,

1:23.0

or like, just at the end or living in crisis mode

1:26.8

for years when you're like, I'm only supposed

1:28.8

to be in crisis mode for like,

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