#26

You are a Realist:
Say that like it's a good thing. You don't waste a lot of time agonizing over whether your toddler will get into the right college or your grade-schooler is getting enough science to succeed in med school or your high-schooler is making the right business contacts.
You're more in touch with reality than that - you know that what really counts is whether your child is happy, and functioning, and moving forward. Whatever plans and dreams you may have once had for your child, you've been forced to replace them with ones more appropriate to his or her own personal abilities and interests, strengths and limitations.
That's something every parent should do, but so many never attempt, often with heartbreaking results. You've gotten the heartbreak part over early.
Terri Mauro
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Sing it again, sweet Sistah! Realist - I've taken to calling it "meat and potatos person". :-) Reality sure comes SMASHING down on you sometimes. It would be so nice to live in some la la land. Pretending that everything is ok - everything will be ok. Well, not without a lot of hard, icky work, it won't. Special Needs Will, guardian, funeral plans, you name it - you HAVE to think about it. Hysterectomy, Birth Control, all things that have to be considered, thought about, and early - not when it's too late. We always say that we're HOPING we have to mortgage the house to put her in college. That's the one thing we haven't financially prepared for. We doubt we will need it - but you just never know. You walk that fine line between being prepared but also knowing the cold hard truth.