Perspectives on Challenged Family Building

Take a few moments and experience the exercise below designed to help adults see moving through the eyes of the child*:
You are sitting in your apartment’s living room on a warm summer evening. Your spouse is dozing peacefully on the sofa. You’re curled up with a good book, and your feeling is one of contentment.
 
Suddenly, [...]

In our previous blog, This is Not the Brother or Sister I Expected, we pointed out that how professionals and parents handle the dissemination of information—to their typical sons and daughters— about a sibling’s special needs will greatly influence the adjustment of the children already in the family (Meyer & Vadasy, 1994). This, in turn, [...]

As a parent, do you feel like every request becomes a bargain? You ask, “Would you please bring your laundry downstairs, and your child replies, “I will if you let me go to Tommy’s house.”  You say, “It’s time for dinner.” Your son or daughter replies, I’ll sit down when you let me have a [...]