Some Motivational Talk

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...

Siblings are the most important yet the most neglected people in the lives of our children with special needs. After the diagnosis while we as parents go through...

Close your eyes and go back in time. Picture your first few meetings with your spouse, the awkward eye contact, the skipping of the heart beat, the uninhibited...

  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...

Motherhood means many things to many people. From the ‘state of being a mother’ to ‘the worst job that we love dearly’, it is most often defined by...

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...

Those of us who think we don’t really need a priority list for our child, whether typical or special needs, should think one more time. I am sure...

We all mothers know this and have probably gone through it million of times.  Picture it; you had a terrible day. The laundry is still not done! The...

  When I got to know that my daughter had Down syndrome, I thought of a life which would be sad, depressing and cheerless in the years to come,...

It isn't easy to be objective about something when your soul is invested in it. 'Down syndrome' is one such word that changed my life forever. From the...

When I first heard his talk, (Andrew Solomon Ted Talk) I was puzzled about how could someone reach out to my heart so effortlessly. The more I heard...

Parenthood is hard! The only antidote one has about parenting is 'the children,' They are their own solution. A minute you are so angry that you want to...