Special Needs Supermom podcast - Jennifer Chamberlin: When Your Kid Needs To Be Monitored 24/7

Jennifer Chamberlin: When Your Kid Needs To Be Monitored 24/7

05/06/20 • 30 min

Jennifer Chamberlin is a successful bilingual virtual assistant and founder of My Bilingual VA based near Paris, with her own team. On top of that she is also a mentor for aspiring French VA's. She is also a supermom of a 12-year-old boy who has type 1 diabetes. How do you manage if you have a kid who needs to be monitored 24/7? Who can’t just have a sleep-over or go on a fieldtrip? How do you handle the feeling you always have to be ‘on’? Jennifer talks about how she and her husband found out, deal with the daily challenges, and make life as much fun as possible for their son.

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How To Handle So-Called Advice From The Outside World

Do you also get constant so-called advice from the outside world? Do your parents, siblings, friends and even total strangers you walk past in the grocery store know exactly what you should do? Did any of these comments ever made you feel better? Are they ever really helpful? No matter how good their attentions are, it is not OK. And after 16 years of practice, I found THE solution to handle these so-called advices. I’ve got a friendly version and straight-forward solution for you. That will stop people from talking and you from feeling crappy and wanting to go for that bottle of wine afterwards. Your kid, your situation. The end.

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