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This book is a collection of essays written by parents of special needs children. I read it because I am a teacher of special needs children and any advise is helpful and no one knows the kid better than the parent. It was a very interesting, very telling book. Almost every single essay talked about feeling like a "failure" parent or being judged by others, which will stick with me, reminding me never to blame the parent for a child that can't help what they do. I disagreed with some of the methods (homeschooling is the worst thing you can do to any child, special needs or not) and others essays were dripping with the privileges of having money (it's nice to hire a million specialist and quit your job, but most people can't do that). For the most part I liked the book, I think it's very useful and very interesting, but it got somewhat repetitive towards the end. It's something that I would recommend borrowing from the Library, but it's not a repeat read. I'd give it a B+.