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Guest for Pamela's Place Friday 10/18/13 @ 12:00 p.m. CST
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Pamela's Place has moved to the new time slot of 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. each Friday. My guest for Friday 10/18/13 is Tim Sweeney.
Tim Sweeney left his career as a successful attorney to care fulltime for his son, Timmy, who has Down syndrome and Autism. Dirt poor as a teenager, Sweeney worked all kinds of jobs so he wouldn’t add to his dad’s financial burden and listened to the radio constantly – developing a love for country, rock, and R&B music. He turned to music as a tool for communicating with his son, who is unable to speak. Sweeney went to Nashville, Tenn., to document the special bond he shares with his son through music. The result is his inaugural CD, “This Time,” on Oil House Records, which has quickly garnered much attention and applause throughout the music industry.
Since infancy, night times have been difficult for Timmy Sweeney, who has Down syndrome, autism and trouble falling asleep. His father, Tim Sweeney, found a natural solution: sing to his son, and sing a lot.
“When he was a baby, he would just light up when I sang to him. Over time, I started writing short little melodies, which led to me writing an entire song and then many songs,” says Sweeney, http://tinyurl.com/SweeneyMusic, who climbed out of poverty up the corporate ladder and became a successful attorney for prestigious clients. At the height of his success, he left his career to care for Timmy, who can’t speak or care for himself.
Sweeney and his wife love their son and continue to work hard to give him the very best care, but it was often challenging. “One time, my wife said to me, ‘I wish that, just once, Timmy could say I love you to me.’ ”
That inspired a song and music video that has moved viewers with its images of Timmy as a toddler and the inclusion of American Sign Language translation.
Timmy, now grown up, has inspired in his father and others a deep sense of empathy and a new sense of understanding, Sweeney says.
Loving his son unconditionally – as the pleasant and loving young man he is, even with all his challenges– has helped Sweeney understand others better. “It made me realize what’s important in life - we should all appreciate people for what they can do, rather than what they can’t do.”
“When a child is born with Down syndrome or other disabilities, a parent often wonders, like I did, what would be the child’s purpose in life,” Sweeney explains, “but after knowing and caring for Timmy all these years, I realized that success should not be measured by what you accomplish but by what you inspire others to accomplish.”
With music being a bridge between father and son, Timmy inspired Sweeney to take their late night music sessions to the next level, which led Sweeney to the production and release of an album with Oil House Records and a tremendously popular music video for his recently released radio hit, “Baby I Try For You.”
Join me for Pamela's Place this Friday,10/18/13 from 12:00 p.m. until 1:00 p.m. to hear this remarkable story.
Be Blessed!
Pamela "Jewels" Bates,
Operations manager,
Host of Pamela's Place,
Host of Weekend Outlook,
Co Host of Community Talk,
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