Your super-sized listing of Five Fun Things to Do Today -- including a family activity, a site for the kids, a shopping site, a site offering humor or inspiration about parenting children with special needs, and a site that's just silly or fun.
Read moreHere's your weekend round-up of all the articles, blog posts, and site updates you may have missed from the past week in About Parenting Special Needs.
Read moreWhat It Is: An article on the ABC show
Find My Family, which debuts tonight. Writer Martha Osborne -- who is both an adoptee and an adoptive parent -- expresses misgivings over the show's apparent exploitation of adoption reunions and devaluing of adoptive families, and suggests how to watch and discuss it with adopted kids. ...
Read more What It Is: "Is this your first gluten-free holiday season, or are you an experienced cook looking for new gluten-free Thanksgiving recipes? ... Choose from among these recipes for making gluten-free versions of traditional holiday foods, from About.com's talented and creative Food Guides." ...
Read more What It Is: "It's impossible to come up with one menu of Thanksgiving foods that's safe for every possible set of food allergies, since people can be allergic to virtually any fruit, vegetable, meat, or grain. But common Thanksgiving foods do tend to be rich in some very common allergens -- especially wheat, dairy, soy, and eggs. Here are some suggestions for foods that are seasonally appropriate, festive, and safe for many allergy needs." ...
Read more What It Is: "What makes you thankful about your child, or about your experience of special-needs parenting? Whether serious, silly, or sentimental, your thanks here will be a public testimony to our children's worth, something the wider world sometimes has trouble appreciating." ...
Read more What It Is: A site that allows you to choose a cause to receive a portion of the proceeds when you shop online or do online searches. ...
Read more Your super-sized listing of Five Fun Things to Do Today -- including a family activity, a site for the kids, a shopping site, a site offering humor or inspiration about parenting children with special needs, and a site that's just silly or fun.
Read moreHere's your weekend round-up of all the articles, blog posts, and site updates you may have missed from the past week in About Parenting Special Needs.
Read moreWhat It Is: "The Sparkle Effect, Inc., is a nonprofit corporation that provides guidance, peer mentoring, and online tools to enable high school students across the United States to create cheerleading squads for students with special needs and to fully integrate those squads into the high school sports curriculum." ...
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