There, I said it. I honestly don't care where my son goes to college. He's only 13, so we have a few years before we even have to consider it, but I need to say it now. I need to say it because of the madness I see around me....

The school year is beginning and hopefully your child is ready, but are you? What kind of expectations do you have for this school year and how will you manage them? We all want our kids to grow both academically and emotionally as the year progresses, but there are almost...

When you're raising a child in New York City, one of the pressing questions as they get older is, At what age can they go out by themselves? It's hard to imagine it ever happening as you're pushing them in a stroller or on the swing. How will this little...

My husband is a paraplegic. He's also a great father, a loving spouse and an occasional marathoner. He gets around independently in a manual wheelchair. He has what is known as a T4/5 complete injury, but that's not something most people need to know. The main thing they...

My son is teetering. He is riding the physical and emotional see-saw between youth and adulthood. I couldn't help but stare at him as we rode the subway recently; his long, skinny legs jutting out into the aisle; his sweet, angular face that somehow, at sometime, lost its childhood chubbiness....

"Just so you understand, your child will be classified as a Preschooler with a Disability."

And so with 15 words, my future career path was laid out for me, although I didn't know it at the time. It was 2002, my son was three years old, and there I sat...

Every year my son's special needs school invites former graduates back to speak to parents about their lives. Ranging in age from teens to adults, they spend some time letting us know what they've been up to and how their learning issues have affected their journeys. Every year I attend...

When my son was much younger and deep in the throes of a textbook Oedipal Complex, he looked at me with all sincerity and said, "Mom, why did you marry Dad? Why didn't you wait for me?" I explained as best as I could, but it didn't really matter what...

And so it happened. The most talked (and shouted) about two weeks of the public school year have come and gone. The now infamous standardized tests in English Language Arts and Mathematics for 3rd through 8th graders have been administered and here we are talking about, among other things,

"Honey, I just took a pregnancy test and it came out positive."

My husband's response to this news was typical of his reaction to most things. He was calm, collected, thoughtful. He smiled at me, took a deep breath and said, "OK." We both stared at the pregnancy test...