Hosted by Madeline Cheney · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 300 episodes
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This is the real, raw, and all the feels of loving a child with disabilities. Episodes feature parent-guests, professionals, and solo episodes with host Madeline Cheney. Their authentic conversations don’t shy away from the strong and mixed emotions that often accompany medically-complex parenting.Parents listen in to feel seen, validated, and receive much-needed solidarity. Professionals working with disabled people listen in to better understand what is often going on under the surface for a family living with disabilities.
Madeline Cheney hosts The Rare Life, a kids show with 300 episodes published.
For most of us, traveling with medically complex and disabled children can feel daunting, scary, or maybe even impossible. But while not necessarily easy or simple, if travel is a priority for your family, it is possible
The dads deserve a village too. In this Father’s Day mini episode, Madeline talks with Lizzy of Wonders of Wally about her poem, The Forgotten Father, and the quiet, crushing ways dads are often expected to carry everyth
It’s summer! But when you have a disabled or medically complex kids, this season can bring with it many, many mixed feelings. Today, we’re digging into all of that: how we feel about summer, what makes summer uniquely ha
Season 13 is coming to a close, and this season covered a lot of heavy, but necessary ground. In this finale episode, Madeline and Alyssa are joined by Caitlyn, a listener and mom to Miles, to look back on the episodes t
Most of us can’t be with our children 24/7. At some point, we often must hand off care of our children school staff, nurses, therapists, hospitals, family members, etc to help care for our disabled and medically complex
For many parents of disabled and medically complex children, “raising awareness”, especially on social media, can start to feel like another responsibility sitting on top of an already overwhelming life. Post more. Educa
For many families of disabled and medically complex children, school is rarely a simple decision. It’s a constant balancing act between medical needs, safety, transportation, therapies, staffing, inclusion, and what your
For most people, a trip to the ER is unexpected. But when your child has medical complexities, it’s often an inevitable and rhythmic part of life. Every time something seems off and feels like it’s progressing, you’re fo
Before Logan’s diagnosis of Sanfilippo syndrome, Noelle assumed they’d figure out what was off... and then fix it. She never imagined that her family would be facing a progressive, terminal disease that no one, including
From an early age, most of us are taught that being “smart” matters. It’s tied to the way society measures and views success, independence, and worth. So what happens when you're raising a child with an intellectual disa
At face value, our kid’s equipment is just stuff. It helps our kids move, eat, hear, breathe, communicate, and more. But when that “stuff” feels like it’s taking over our lives (and homes), complicated feelings can come
Before his daughter was born, Robin thought he had a sense of what it meant to be a dad. But after a prenatal diagnosis of Trisomy 13, that understanding started to unravel. In this episode, Robin reflects on what it was
As parents of medically complex kids, we’ve all been there. We’re at the park or the grocery store with our kid, and someone we don’t know walks up to us and starts asking questions about our child. You might be so put o
For most of us who have spent years inside the medical system with a complex child, the experience of being mom in an exam room can feel very different from the experience of being dad. Sometimes that means being dismiss
For many disability parents, medically complex life begins in the NICU. In those early days, everything feels heightened: the machines, the uncertainty, the helplessness of watching doctors care for your tiny baby while
When you’re raising a child with complex medical needs, the early years can feel like one long stretch of survival mode. Hospital stays, surgeries, therapies, and constant uncertainty loom large over everything. For Cind
For a lot of disability parents, the behavioral side of our child’s diagnosis often gets judged the fastest and is understood the least. It’s also another part that can make us feel like we’re failing, because it’s so ha
For families of medically complex kids, where you live can determine what services your child gets, whether you can be paid to care for them, how long you sit on a waitlist, and whether the world around you is even built
Many of us start our disability parent journey early in our child’s life, with signs that something is medically awry sometimes as early as birth or in utero. But that’s not the story for Deonna. Instead, a seemingly min
Surgery of some kind or another is a near universal experience for medically complex kids. (And yes, procedures that involve anesthesia or something similar count too!) And these experiences don’t just affect our childre
Caitlyn
Mentor Program leader · Next Gen Activity and Care Center
1 appearance on this show
Noelle
trauma informed yoga teacher · The Artist Edit
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Madeline
co-creator of Prison Family Podcast · Kinda Funny
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Alyssa
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1 appearance on this show
Robin
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Cindy
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Katie
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Annie
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