A healthy environment should be a birthright for all children. Indoor air and water pollution, inadequate sanitation, and other environmental dangers to children often require home water filtration systems; better stoves for cooking and heating. and other measures to reduce infection and disease.

The 2012 Hallmark movie "A Smile as Big as the Moon: A Special Education Teacher, His Class, and Their Inspiring Journey Through U.S. Space Camp" is as inspirational today as it was in 1989. The actor playing the student with Down syndrome is Peter ten Brink.

Some babies are late to learn 'self-soothing' because they are not developmentally ready to take on that responsibility. Teaching a baby to self-soothe without being aware of what might be causing them physical discomfort or other distress is counterproductive to raising a resilient child.

New Year Blues and winter depression can strike families unexpectedly, and may hit harder when parents of children with special needs lack support, understanding and encouragement during the first stressful weeks of the new year and dark months of winter

Valentines Day holiday is a great opportunity for expressions of friendship between children and a wonderful incentive for them to practice writing their first names on the backs of cards, or placing stickers with preprinted names and messages of friendship.