So often our kids' challenges are described in terms of impairment (disability, special needs), words that encompass their entire beings. But "rebel" makes it clear it's just a part of them that's acting up. It doesn't let their challenges define who they are.

Children with a disability do not have a life "minus." They have a life, period. It's their life. It's not some other child's life, their parent's life or their peers' life. It's their life.

"The widespread use of the word reproduction for this activity, with its implication that two people are but braiding themselves together, is at best a euphemism to comfort prospective parents before they get in over their heads."

A museum in New Hampshire has apologized for refusing to allow an 8-year-old blind girl named Abby Duffy to use her white cane inside the museum, WMU...

Language appropriation is clearly one of the challenges that we need to confront as our brilliant but fragile son makes his way through his secondary school years. What do you do with a child who has such powerful memory skills? How can we help him to avoid the pitfalls of plagiarism?

Never has a presidential candidate lived so searing a parenting tale while he campaigns. In that way, the former Pennsylvania Senator's life is both a very singular and personal story, and also a very public window into the kinds of private choices families find themselves making across the country every day.

Ellen Seidman's nine-year-old son Max likes to have things his way. He went through a Cars 2 phase, wherein he would watch that video -- never the ori...