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A Bill of Rights For Parents of Kids With Special Needs

A Bill of Rights for parents of kids with Special Needs: We, the parents, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure tranquility (and sanity) and promote the

Lunch Makeover?

School lunch can provide a lot of calories in one sitting, usually too many for your school aged child. If your child is bringing lunch from home, start thinking about

Can the Foods That We Consume Cause Problems?

Many of us do not realize that what we serve to our children, and consume ourselves, can clearly be harming our bodies

A Tale of Two Dads

I am blessed to have witnessed two very different fathers, two very different children and two very different moments of accomplishment in

I balked this morning when the director of my son’s theraputic horseback riding program asked me to walk beside a horse ridden by a child with a disability, It’s not that horses scare me, they don’t. It’s just that I was afraid I couldn’t

Swim Team Social Success

Swimming is a solitary exercise when done on your own. As part of a swim team, however, kids are swimming in lanes with other kids for

Horse Power of a Different Variety

Since the dawning of man, the horse and man have been linked together for the greater

Autistic Teen Finds Inner Voice

This is an amazing story of a teen girl with autism. Carly Fleischman says she is a normal child locked in a body she has no control over

P.i.N.C.H. Therapy

Speech is an important part of communication. To be effective, speech needs to be intelligible. One of the factors that can impair intelligibility is

My Dad Has Gone to Heaven

How many of us have asked this question? What happens when your loved one goes to heaven, and better yet