This week's show highlights:
- Love and acceptance of our LGBT youth
- Parenting a dual-diagnosis child
Deon Davis is a mother and author as well as an advocate for gay youth. Her own son, who came out when he was just 14, was bullied. Deon saw a need for her son as well as other gay youth. That need: being an advocate to lead the way for parents and others to understand our gay youth. In her book I'll Find A Way Davis shares her journey as a mom of love and acceptance for her son.
Sexual Orientation Advocate Deon Davis, well known for her empowerment speaking sessions and family lifestyle relationship development models, turn author, releases a new book, I'll Find A Way. I'll Find A Way explores situations that parents may experience in dealing with their Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) child and, lends expert advice about acceptance, support, in addition to family empowerment tools. Drawing from her personal experience of coping with a Gay son who ‘came out' to her when he was 16, Deon Davis is on a national campaign to emphasize the importance of raising GLBT children in a sound environment.
G. Eric Francis is the author of The Book of Noah -3:21, which talks about his life as a dad with a son named Noah, who has the dual diagnosis of Down Syndrome and Autism.
So pull up a chair, shake up a cocktail, and kick up your heels while you tune in to the refreshingly real talk about what it takes to be a functional - and fun - parent in today's wild world of raising kids.
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