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The Stuttering Foundation in Memphis offers a pamphlet: "If You Think Your Child is Stuttering," which offers tips for families. * Try to model slow and relaxed speech when talking with your child, and encourage other family members to do the same. Don't speak so slowly that it sounds abnormal, but keep it unhurried, with [...]

Author JoAnn Collins is the mother of two adults with disabilities. She has written "Disability Deception: Lies Disability Educators Tell and How Parents Can Beat them at their Own Game."  "Many parents who are fighting for an appropriate education for their child with disabilities encounter lies by disability educators. Many times parents do not understand [...]

 Allow me to drain a little more water out of the shallow end of the pool. I was reading Working Mother magazine and it asked an interviewee what her "dream" purchase would be. The woman's answer was a Louis Vuitton handbag. I walked away from a cute bag at Marshall's because it was $50.  On [...]

 The price per baby tooth is 22 percent higher today than it was a year ago, according to an article on the Web site WebMD. The article cites a poll by Securian Dental that shows that the Tooth Fairy pays an average of $2.09 up from $1.71 last year.  Did you know that kids have [...]

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  The Sears repairman came to fix the dishwasher. This guy had come to our home before. I remember him because he was extraordinarily tall, but then I'm extraordinarily short. Turns out the plug from the dishwasher was loose. Took the guy all of 5 minutes to figure it out. Picture me slapping my forehead [...]