BY: Christina Strigas January 23, 2013

Unlock the keyto a child’s heart.Open the doorto a child’s path. Hear the wordsOf a child’s voice.Listen to the soundof a child’s song. Understand the needof a child’s action. Believe the wordsof a child’s truth. Recognize the painof a child’s hurt. ...

BY: Christina Strigas January 23, 2013

Looking into your eyes full of love and surprise how you love to smile giggle at the thought of endless tickles. You pretend to drink water it’s soap, you say so you pour it on your head splash like Ariel pretend t...

BY: Christina Strigas January 23, 2013

As the children sleepit is so peacefulno jumping, no yelling, not a leap!Up and down their shoulders movesweet, beautiful facesdreaming of some faraway places.Soon they will open their eyesand askam I leaving soon? Where is Mommy? Daddy?we hug and sm...

BY: Langston Hughes  January 20, 2013

Well, son, I'll tell you:Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.It's had tacks in it,And splinters,And boards torn up,And places with no carpet on the floor—Bare.But all the time I'se been a-climbin' on,And reachin' landin's,And turnin' corners,A...

RATING: 4/5

BY: D.S. Mullis  December 27, 2012

Stamina -- Staying power, energy, endurance, resistance, resilience, strength, determination, vigor, fortitude, grit!WOW! What a powerful word, stamina…who speaks of it much these days? Not too many in my circle of life-I guess because not too many p...

BY: Emily Perl Kingsley  October 28, 2012

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this...... When you're going to have a...