Wednesday, February 29, 2012

The Story of a Special Needs Mother « MomsRising Blog #parents

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The Story of a Special Needs Mother

From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog
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MOTHERS member and resident reader Kelly DiNorcia sent me this book review – we’ll take a much needed break from politics and presidential campaigns with this post and lose ourselves in the pages of a “momoir”. You can find more reading for the maternally-minded at the MOTHERS Book Bag page on GoodReads.com. Thanks Kelly!

In her book The Anti-Romantic Child: A Story of Unexpected Joy, author Priscilla Gilman chronicles her experiences as the mother of a special-needs child. Though Gilman harbored suspicions that Benj was unlike other children, it was not until he was almost three that Gilman’s worries were confirmed. The director of a potential preschool delivered the upsetting news that he suspected something was amiss. What their