Tiara Mays, MBA

Tiara L. Mays, MBA is the creator of the popular #TwinChronicals™ Facebook blog series. A hashtag that simply began to provide her grandmother with updates about her great-grandchildren over time became a popular pastime for many parents in the Des Moines, Iowa area. Parents across the country resonate with Tiara’s many interactions with her twins Prince and Tiana as she shares her life being a single mother raising twins. Tiara currently lives in Des Moines, Iowa where she raises her two children, Prince and Tiana. She attended Iowa State University where she earned a degree in psychology with a minor in sociology. She recently graduated with an MBA degree from Purdue University Global. In her free time, Tiara enjoys writing and reading. In 2015 her son Prince was diagnosed with autism, and she has spent the past three years advocating for services to be developed for children with autism in the state of Iowa.

This Is My House: Why I Placed My Son With Autism in a Group Home

All parents schedule their kid’s departure from their home to be around the age of 18 years. I often joke that my twins have an 18-year contract in my house and then they get the boot. So it is hard to put into words how that deadline got moved up by 12 years for my

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