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About Max and roller coasters Max has this fascination/fear thing with roller coasters. He's never been on one, but when we're at an amusement park he'll stand and stare at them, mesmeriz…

OK, so I won't be hiring Max out anytime soon to address wedding invitations. But holy handwriting: He is scribbling his name by himself! Quite the feat for a kid with hands that sometimes don…

You and I are at the playground with our kids.  Perhaps we are sitting on a bench, chatting about the stuff moms talk about when they first meet—school, our ridiculous taxes, the best place to get th…

Back after Max was born, I spent a lot of time emailing moms on The Pediatric Stroke Network e-loop. I was especially interested in connecting with ones whose kids were older six and up. Hearing tha…

I recently asked a bunch of pediatric therapists how kids can get the maximum benefits from therapies: speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, ABA therapy, whatever therapy! All of th…

XOXO, all! Check out Conversation Hearts For Special Needs Parents: The Video . You can email it to friends if you care enough to send the very best, or something like that.

This guest post is from Jane Schulz, Ed.D., over at Grown Man Now . She's the author of a book by the same name; the title refers to her son Billy. Jane , a mom of four, is a longtime advocate fo…

It's hardest when your child is very young and you're still struggling to accept that he has special needs. So much about the future is unknown, although you've heard every single grim ri…

The other week, I went out with a group of moms. All of us have kids with special needs. A woman who reads this blog, Beth, had organized the night and invited me (hi, Beth!). I hadn't done anyth…

If my child didn't have special needs , I wouldn't have the extreme appreciation I do for his accomplishments. I relish each and every mini milestone, right along with the mega ones. If my ch…

Max recently had his spring concert. The week before, I got a promising email from his teacher: "I am happy to tell you that Max did a great job at the dress rehearsal. He waited in a quiet area…

Summer's almost here, and I know it because A. is singing in her backyard. She lives next door to us and every year, she starts her solos around Memorial Day, usually in the early evening. I watc…

I'm on a train going home the other day and a guy sits down in the seat opposite me. We end up talking and it turns out we have a mutual friend. He asks where the kids go to school, and I tell hi…

Yesterday evening I went to Back To School Night for Max, and something shocking and amazing happened: For the first time ever at one of these events, I didn't cry. It was inspirational, not depr…