The down syndrome creed !

My face may be different But my feelings the same I laugh and I cry And I take pride in my gains I was sent here among you To teach you to love As...

Should Mothers Of Special Needs Children Work? The Eternal Dilemma Of...

Do you work? This question has become the second most important question asked after how are you? Or what’s your name? And if one thinks that this is...

Vacations With Your Special Needs Child? Think Before You Plunge!

A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking. - Earl Wilson How true are these words and how wonderful it is to...

What to do when your Special Needs child is stared at?...

 Down syndrome or no Down syndrome, every child is unique. There are children who are extremely naughty, nasty and then some who are super sensitive, funny and social....

Special Need Mothers: Do You Have Wings?

  It all started with a simple question that I was asked on LIVE TV by the anchor (Yes, I want  to boast that I was on TV!). This...

Is ‘INCLUSION’ Really The Answer For Children With Special Needs?

A dear friend and a fellow parent of a daughter  with Down syndrome always refers to ‘Inclusion’ as a ‘double-edged sword,’ explaining how in absence of good inclusion...

3 reasons why I love my daughter’s lies..!

Oliver Wendell, a famous Poet, author, physician, lecturer and  one of the best writers of 19th century once wrote, “Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world...

How Would You Play Santa To Your Child With Special Needs...

This is the time of the year when everything, and everyone is in celebration mode. Christmas trees are being bought. The lights are being checked, and the gifts...

Are You Really The ‘Blessed’ Special Needs Parent?

Being  a special needs mother isn't the best thing in the world as propagated by many but it's not the worst either. It's somewhere in the middle! Like...

Happy World Down Syndrome Day : Celebrating Parenthood

From the day I had decided that I wanted to make a video for World Down Syndrome Day, I knew that I wanted to focus more on parents...

A Letter To My ‘Special’ Daughter, With Love!

I had always thought of writing letters to my daughter, long before she was even born. So madly in love I was with this ‘image’ of having a...

Two incidents; one will make you feel proud and the other...

Time and again we come across incidents which disgust us, make us angry and outrageous about the discrimination that still happens at the hands of some people, who...