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Parenting Our Special Children Mishpacha Magazine - Read full article here: http://www.mishpacha.com/Browse/Article/1444/Parenting-Our-Special-Children
Shared by: Naomi L.
I offer a unique perspective in the world of parenting. My long-awaited, extremely precious only son was almost lost to us in the first hours of his life, and is now growing up to be sweet and lovable but also physically, medically, and cognitively handicapped. I sometimes remark that after giving me twelve years of no responsibility for children, Hashem has now given me the responsibilities of a mother of twelve. What I can attest is that having a child is nothing to take for granted. Certainly, having a healthy child is something for which every parent so blessed should be eternally grateful. Soon after we realized that my son was not going to be a “typical” child, a secular Israeli doctor in Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital taught me an important lesson: Every child can be compared to a ruler. It would be irrelevant to take measurements with a metric ruler and an imperial ruler, and deem one inaccurate because it calculated a smaller number; it is similarly irrelevant to compare children. Every child is his or her own ruler, and should only be measured against him- or herself.
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