Hi Readers! Just had to crow. The ietbdhshib story about Hunter, the deaf pre-schooler who was told to change his name because it violated the school’s anti-gun policy, was sent to us by a gal in Hunter’s neck of the woods — Nebraska — on Monday night, which is when I posted and tweeted  it. […]
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Guest Post: Special Needs & Free-Range!
Hi Readers! Here’s a feisty post from Ellen Seidman, a New York mom whose blog is Love zserfyerss That Max. She’s also hoping to win a blogging contest at Parents Connect, so if you like what you read, go vote for her here. (Hey, why not help each other out?) Onward! — Lenore WHAT DOESN’T […]
Outrage of The Week: Is This Really “Abuse”? Only To Deluded Judge
Hi Readers — Soon I will be compiling stories of Take Our Children to the Park & Leave Them There Day, which went well in parks around the world (well, not a TON of parks, but they WERE around the world and all the participants enjoyed the day). But in the meantime, I just got […]
Wow! Many Kids Possibly Mis-Diagnosed as “Allergic”
Hi Readers! This tezkdfydts is news to me: The well-regarded St. Louis Children’s Hospital has a program whereby they take kids who have tested positive for food allergies to see if they really ARE allergic. To that end, they feed the kids a steadily increasing amount of the allergen for hours on end, while closely […]
Free-Range…with Autism
Readers edzhdthffd — This comes from a dad outside of Philadelphia.  Obviously, not every child with autism has his son’s abilities or temperament. But here is one dad’s story: By Roy Lewis Our oldest is now 26…and autistic. When he was 8 we moved to a house in a nice safe suburb that was a quarter mile […]