Parenting is joyful, frustrating, exhausting, and rewarding. Parenting a child with special needs gives you a double dose of it all.
You face challenges most parents never dream of. You juggle doctors, therapists, special ed, insurance companies, pharmacies and the list goes on. Then there are the emotional and behavioral issues you deal with. How do you handle a child who forgets to take his critical medications? What do you say when a sibling asks, "Will my sister always be like this?"
This is where we can help. Take a few minutes to browse around our website. There are lots of resources here for you including free audio downloads, articles and video clips.
Special parenting skills are needed to raise kids
with special needs. Whether your child has ADD, allergies, asthma, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, Down syndrome, developmental delays, an eating disorder or any other special need, you'll find essential parenting skills to help your child cope well with challenges, comply with medical requirements and live a hope-filled life.
Our resources will give you practical and compassionate answers as you learn effective ways to communicate with special needs children of all ages.
Love and Logic ® for Children with Special Needs
As the co-creator of Love and Logic, child psychiatrist Foster Cline, MD has adapted Love and Logic's powerful- yet simple- parenting tools to the special challenges of raising children with special needs. He has teamed up with Lisa C. Greene, the mother of two children with cystic fbrosis, to bring you new special needs resources which include an award- winning book, audio, video, live and web-based support.
You'll discover how to:
- Motivate children to make wise choices about food and medication.
- Promote responsibility without nagging, lecturing or bribing.
- Answer your child's tough questions about their special needs.
- Empower your child to make wise self-care decisions.
- Avoid power struggles and other common parenting traps.
- Handle refusal to take medication and do medical treatments.
- Avoid the dangers of over-protection or helicopter parenting.
- Prepare your child for the transition to independence.
- Navigate sibling, family and couple relationship challenges.
"One of my mantras for many years has been, 'Don’t disable a child with disabilities!' As this program points out so clearly, these children, even more so than children who are not obviously medically impacted, need to be confident, competent, respectful, responsible, and, ultimately, independent." -Tracy L. Trotter, MD, Fellow of American Academy of Pediatrics, Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine
