How to Teach Blowing
How to Teach Blowing All parents want their children to be able to blow out their birthday candles. While most children pick up this skill naturally, others need a little...
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Clean Up! Clean Up! Everybody Everywhere
Clean Up! I walked into my 18 year old son’s room the other day, and after tripping over his football gear and laundry, I said, “How can you study and...
Identifying Goals
Positive behavior support is an individualized process for improving children’s behavior in family and community life. It involves the following steps. This is the first of a series of six...
Relationship Rescue: My Daughter is Talking About Marriage
My daughter is a 19 year old with Down syndrome (DS. She has been dating a 21 year old man with DS. Any advice about dating and marriage?
Lifelong Resolution
Weight loss is one of the most popular New Year’s resolutions. Most people tend to have a long list of things they would like to change, but never make it a priority, until now
What to Make of Portions and Serving Sizes?
Portions differ for all ages. The trick is learning how much to serve
Relationship Rescue: Aging out of School
“Aging out of school and where do we go from here”? This is one of the most difficult decisions for a “special needs” parent to be in
Surviving the Holidays
The holiday season is often challenging for most of us
Relationship Rescue: Holiday’s Maintaining Balance & Fun
Maintaining some sense of decorum around the holidays with special needs children, while still managing to have fun
What is Pierre Robin Sequence?
To help Raise awareness on the various disorders, Parenting Special Needs Magazine will be highlighting one disorder per issue. In this issue we are highlighting Pierre Robin Sequence
