The Maven (and believe me, if you don't know the Maven, you should) was playing the interview game on her blog. I know I've done some variation of this like 5000 times in the past year, but it's always fun, and in this case, it got the Maven to e-mail me some words she handpicked [...]
Posts under ‘special needs children’
A Tale of Two Mothers
Image credit: Photo by Omar Eduardo on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons As featured in the New York Times blog Motherlode I A mother and her son are in line at a grocery store. They boy looks like he’s about nine or ten. The mother looks a little tense as the boy starts to fidget [...]
Snapshots
Image credit: Photo by LarimdaME on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons This week a woman I knew in high school shared snapshots of her family at Halloween; she and her husband and a few other couples had gathered to take the kids out trick-or-treating. The adults were all smiling, dressed in matching thematic costumes, and [...]
Adventures in Toilet Training an Autistic Child: Part I
Image credit: Photo byJust Taken Pics on FlickrLicensed under Creative Commons To those of you without children, there are probably few things less interesting or appealing that the subject of toilet training. The fact that we parents engage in such discussions with amazing fervor may even make you wary of having children of your own. [...]
Sarah Palin and the Myth of Special Needs Supermoms
This post is the seventh in a (slowly developing) series onhow I came to be where I am around the current election,and the third post about the candidates themselves. Sarah Palin and I have very different moral, political and spiritual beliefs. We have had very different experiences as women and mothers. I'm sure there are [...]
