Time on my hands, and more of your comments

Readers are sounding off in the comments all over this Parenting Special Needs blog, but it can be hard to find and respond to those opinions when they're on posts past this main page. To give you an easy view of the outrage and the outreach, here are some of the things your fellow readers have been saying in the past few weeks. To join the conversation, click on the link to get to the post, then click on "comments" to read the entire comment and add your own two cents.

• "You have a lot of time on your hands don’t you." -- Cherry on "When bad grades happen to good kids"
• "I don’t worry at all about homework during break. I was disappointed that my typically developing son who is in public school had some homework over the break. He needs the downtime more. ... My son who is special needs and homeschooling is doing just fine without conventional schoolwork. The holiday times are full of lessons — more people to talk with at those holiday functions (to work on his speech/communication)." -- Cynthia on "Homework for the holidays"
• "At least they're not beating their kids! They take very good care of their kids! This is the best show on t.v.!" -- Leanne on "Accident on Little People, Big World family farm"
• "I can’t tell you how much this story cheered me up. I bawled too when I saw the video." -- Cammy on "Autistic basketball player meets the president"
• "I don’t think it follows that you would not be as good at improving public schools simply because your child doesn’t attend. Many people help children who have issues unrelated to the issues their own children have — yet they are effective. A doctor in town has been wonderful about advancing knowledge and securing funding for kids with cancer — but his four kids are all healthy. People who don’t have any kids at all have done great work for children." -- Cynthia on "When a special-needs parent is a politician, too"

And one from the Forum:

• "My 12 yr. old son, who has Aspergers, loved this book. The pictures were silly & cute, and it was very accurate. It was great for a kid to read, but also would be great for grandparents, friends, etc. who want to understand the basics of aspergers without reading a technical manual. (I liked it, too.)" -- kw2vt on "All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome"