Special needs

Public places can be hard if your kid has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. These strategies will help you leave the house without losing your cool.

People say: “If you adopt older children, rather than babies, you know what you’re getting.” Well it turns out we didn’t.

Is it too much to ask for a child with special needs to be spoken to like a person?

“There are so many hoops to jump through. And that's the point of those hoops—it’s to weed out people who don't have a crazy, ferocious mother like me.”

I was devastated when my son was diagnosed with dyslexia. It took four years of heartache and hard work, but he is now reading—and I couldn’t be more proud of him.