Special Needs

  Special needs mothers are often considered ‘ALIEN’! They are perceived as women who only pretend to be happy! They are always tired  or have superpowers to deal with...

From the minute you are told that you are going to have a baby, you create that idea of ‘perfection’ in your heart and mind! And you live...

 For the longest time I remember, I have never said ‘No’ to a book that my son had asked to buy. I had introduced him to books way...

The expression on that face after seeing my daughter with Down syndrome was anything but happy. He was supposed to be the main trainer of her dance class...

Education is every child’s RIGHT! And, whether the child is typical or has special needs does not take that right away or tweak it in the way a...

Do you ever wish your child's disability to go away? No matter how much you 'understand' and 'know' about the reality of your child's disability and her limitations,...

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...

No one is ever quite ready; everyone is always caught off guard. Parenthood chooses you. And you open your eyes, look at what you’ve got, say” Oh, my...

Guest Post: After our last post about ‘Changing the perception of people with special needs through makeover’, went viral, we requested ‘Nerida Lamprill' to write another post for us....

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...

Another beautiful guest post from a dear friend and a fellow parent Sonali Barshilia.  Sonali got commissioned into Indian Army in Sep 1999 and took voluntary retirement in...

There is an old adage about age, that it is an issue of mind, if you don’t mind it doesn't matter. After being a mother of a special...