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This study focuses on learning about the parenting experience of mothers tending children with developmental disabilities and understanding the meaning and nature of their experience. Furthermore, the researchers intend to understand the universality and fundamental experiences that appear in the temporal, realistic, and psychological structure of the family raising children with disabilities. A phenomenological research method was applied to understand human subjective experiences through the factual experiences obtained from in-depth counseling of the study subjects, and parenting experiences were analyzed using Giorgi's phenomenological research method. Data collection was conducted from August 2020 to December 2020, and two to three in-depth counseling courses at 120 minutes each were prepared. The parenting experiences of mothers with children with developmental disabilities are as follows. First, parenting is psychologically difficult because they are not aware of the characteristics and behavior of children with developmental disabilities. Second, symptoms such as depression appear in the treatment process of children with developmental disabilities or efforts to treat children with developmental disabilities from the time they accept the child's disability. Among the families, their experiences are as follows. First, having children with disability affect the entire life of the family, particularly the mother. Second, parents with developmental disabilities found that family members and social support were needed until their children's disabilities were recognized. Lastly, raising children with developmental disabilities requires cooperation and support from all members of the families.
