Helping Moms Raise Kids With Special Needs
Our kids in America are facing overwhelming challenges and they’re getting worse. Just check out these statistics: Autism: 1 in 36 (source: CDC). And that’s probably a conservative estimate based on kids born 8 years ago. Many of these kids have severe autism and struggle with gut disorders, epilepsy, speech challenges, self-injury, allergies and food sensitivities, eczema, learning disabilities and severe developmental delays to name
Last week, in the news, I happened to catch this article: UMass researchers block Down syndrome chromosome Before I go further, I want to state that the ORIGINAL url for the article read as follows: “a-potential-end-to-down-syndrome-leaves-parents-torn” That’s what my bookmark says, but I guess it was too shocking, and so they changed the URL, claiming they “upgraded their content system.” (Yea, right.) NOW, the opening line
Success: At the teacher’s conference, I found out that the kids did a great job this year, but I was heartened to hear that Zoe is not just a great kid, she’s also a good friend and learning to have a heart of compassion. She was on the monkey bars one day when her best buddy in her class fell off. She jumped off the
Last week I read a post by a Autism Daddy called, “To The Parents That Say “I Wouldn’t Change My Kid For The World”, I Say Bulls–t!!” I was impressed by his heart-pounding honesty, but it truly made me think, and think hard. He complained that it was an absolute lie when parents said they wouldn’t cure autism. Now, granted, Down syndrome is not autism,
