12 Coupons to Give a Friend Who Parents Kids With Disabilities
If you have a friend who parents kids with disabilities, perhaps you have wanted to do something to help them out. As a parent of two kids with disabilities, some of the best gifts I can receive are not the type of presents you can buy at a store.
Mostly, I want the gift of friendship, of knowing someone cares enough to enter into my life and help me out by cooking a meal so I don’t have to; take my kid to her dance class or show up at my door with a cup of caramel apple spice from Starbucks.
We created a list of 12 coupons with thoughtful gestures to make life a little bit easier and brighter for your friend. You can print the list or copy and paste the coupons you want to gift. Send them to your friend and ask them to “redeem” them when they need it.
1. Babysitting for the Evening
2. A Home-Cooked Meal for Your Family
3. Watching the Kids Overnight
4. Taking Your Child to a Therapy Session
5. Attending an IEP Meeting With You
6. Grocery Shopping for You and Putting Items Away
7. One Day of Laundry Service: Washing, Folding and Putting Away
8. Organizing Your Kid’s Toys
9. Cleaning Your House
10. Taking One of Your Kids on a Fun Outing With My Family
11. Driving Your Kids to Their Evening Events
12. Buying and Delivering Your Favorite Drink to Your Door
Ellen Stumbo is the founder of Disability Matters, an organization with the mission to encourage every church to embrace disability. Ellen is a national speaker who focuses on issues pertaining adoption, faith, disability and parenting kids with disabilities. Ellen writes for several online platforms including Focus on the Family, LifeWay, MomSense, Not Alone, Mamapedia, Group, The Mighty and the Huffington Post. Her writing also appears in several book anthologies. Ellen blogs at ellenstumbo.com and you can also find her on Twitter and Facebook.
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