Russell has just competed his first year of high school, and on the whole I’m satisfied, although I would like to see them make a bit more effort toward inclusive education. He spent 10 years at an elementary school in which he was included in a regular classroom. Only occasionally was he pulled out for [...]

Hi everyone. This is my first post so I’ll do an introduction of our family and then I want to share some recent successes. My name is Clare, I live in southwestern Ontario, Canada and I have four kids. Bobby is 19, Mary 16, Russell will soon turn 15, and Kathleen is 11. Russell has [...]

Sadly, I’m not brave enough to post videos of my son with Down syndrome on YouTube where many troglodytic idiots feel the need to uplift themselves by putting down people with Down syndrome. Thankfully there are others who will brave the ignorant comments so our kids with Down syndrome can be represented and [...]

Not that donating is ever painful, but this is an easy way to donate to Parker’s medical care and doesn’t even require your own funds. You simply open a Revolution Money Exchange Account using the button below and $10 will be deposited into my RME account which will in turn be donated on your [...]

When I had my other children, I didn’t have visions of any of them getting married, going to college, or becoming president. They were babies in my arms, reaching toddlers, defiant preschoolers, and never the visualization of the person they would become in the future.
It was immediately different when Josh was born. He [...]