How to Create a Care Notebook
If you’re the parent of a child diagnosed with special needs, you know how hard it is to remember stuff. You need to remember doctor’s appointments and recommendations, medication dosages, reactions to medications, food allergies, behavioral issues and a whole lot more.
Care Notebook
But sleep-deprived, stressed parents can’t remember all that the stuff without help. And that’s where a Care Notebook comes in. They require some initial organization, but once you have it in place, it will reduced your stress and maybe even your sleep deprivation, if you read it before bedtime!
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Terri Mauro, who was the subject of yesterday’s blog post, introduces Care Notebooks at her Make a Care Notebook page. Be sure to click on the link in the middle of the page that says Care Notebook to find all sorts of downloadable and printable forms. If the project overwhelms you, call one of your organized friends who keeps offering to help. Believe me, you will make her day by recognizing her area of expertise and asking her to put it to good use.
If you use this information to put a Care Notebook together or if you already have a system that works for you, share your thoughts with the rest of us.
Jolene Philo
