skip to main skip to sidebar WINTER RAMBLINGS Friday, August 24, 2007 LETTER TO ERIC- Back to School Inspiration for Parents of Kids with Special Needs It's that time of year again when back-to-school advice is everywhere you turn.
If you check out my previous blog, you'll see that I've added my strong voice to this discussion as well. But getting ready for school is about more than new backpacks and jeans and IEPs and figuring out how to work with brand new team members. It's also about attitude adjustments and big parenting dreams.
This is often a highly emotional time, especially for families of children with special needs. It's a time when guards are up, and a parent's expectations are often questioned by others who may have never met their children, yet act as if they already know all about them and their future outcomes.
Not all back-to-school needs can be met at Wal Mart.
So I've pulled a sacred letter from my writing archives to provide you with some back-to-school inspiration to help calm some of those frayed nerves that might be working overtime right about now. It's a letter I wrote my son as he left the safety of our family nest to test his fragile wings at his neighborhood school in 1995.
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