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Holiday survival guide for divorced parents.

I was having a conversation with someone about gun safety around children today. I was talking about a shooting in California recently (the salon shooting) and then the conversation shifted to the child of the shooter and his primary victim--the child's mother ( Read more... )

Kathy Bonanno, despite her best effort to safeguard her daughter as she exited a bad relationship with an unstable man, was forced to endure one of the worst things any parent could--the violent murder of her daughter. The poet and Unitarian Universalist distilled her grief into a searing book of poetry. The result, Slamming Open The Door, may help ( Read more... )

Mom recalls death of baby she left in car.Nationwide, about thirty six children a year die when they are left in a car and their bodies are overheated as a result. In some of these cases, the switch to a rear-facing infant seat in the back seat of the car makes it all too easy for tired, over-stressed parents to forget the child is with them that ( Read more... )

In response to the letter to Cary Tennis in Salon, entitled My mother is crazy -- what can I do? I posted the following at Salon ( Read more... )

In a 2003 article entitled Planet Autism, author Scot Sea mentions an essay entitled "Welcome to Holland" by Emily Perl Kingsley.

I recommend both pieces to any parent raising children with learning, psychological or physical disabilities.

Excerpt from Salon article:

Sooner or later, parents raising children with severe learning disabilities ( Read more... )

My mom is mentally ill...a letter to Cary Tenis published November 2nd tells a heart breaking tale of a family torn apart by the mother's illness and refusal to accept treatment ( Read more... )