Around the world today people who love a child with Down syndrome are celebrating the beauty found within an extra chromosome. http://momseatofpants.blogspot.com 50 years ago most parents of a child with Down syndrome were told to hand their newborn off to an institution, because these children weren’t able to learn and would be nothing but…
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Hazelnut Kids Stockmar Block Beeswax Crayon Giveaway!
Hazlenut Kids is an online toy store that has provided me hours of recreational dreaming. Many a visit has been spent drooling over the natural, earth-friendly, wooden and organic toys for children and babies. Cause as any parent of a child with special needs will know, a toy is just a toy…..it’s therapy. In this…
World Down Syndrome Day
March 21st is World Down Syndrome Day. On March 21st, 2009, World Down Syndrome Day will mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Professor Jerome Lejeune’s discovery of the extra copy of chromosome 21 which causes Down Syndrome. 3 copies of the 21st chromosome. T21. Get it? Down Syndrome organizations around the world this…
Zebra Mix Winner
The Winner of our Zebra Mix Giveaway is: #79 Janet F! Janet, you are going to absolutely LOVE these.
Planning a Camping Trip With Reflux, a G-Tube and Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome…
Why, you ask? Because I woke up one morning and said to myself, “Self — Your life is disturbingly deficient in chaos at the moment… I know! Let’s plan a summer camping trip! You know — hours upon hours of gluten-free menu planning, tube-feeds without running water, barf bags, taking that ten-mile drive back into…
Stiring Up Fun With Zebra Mix
As parents we are always trying to multi-task. Teaching while providing experiences that peak their interests. Offering experiences that build confidence, support risk taking and are easy for time strapped parents to pull off. Being the Mom of a kid with special needs can sometimes make my other kids feel left out. They understand why…
The Classifieds, Baby
We at 5 Minutes For Special Needs are here to serve. No,we don’t do dishes, dinner, windows or laundry. But, we are totally committed to providing our readers an online site that supports those who love a kid with special needs. Today I’m excited to unveil the grand opening of our brand spankin’ new Classifieds…
CellKeeper Giveaway!
I’m one of those kind of people. The kind that puts their glasses down ‘just for a sec’ and then promptly forgets where she put them down at. Recently, while trying to multi-task by straightening up as I was getting ready to run a few errands, I threw away not only the stuff that needed…
Ashley and The Short Bus
A while back I was asked a question by a remarkable young man named Jonathan Mooney. The tag line on Jonathan’s website is “Author, Public Speaker, Different”. The publisher of his two books describes him on their web page: A young man, once called unteachable, journeys across America to investigate the lives of those, like…
Spreading The Love With My Wonderful Walls.com
Some people just like to spread love. Stephanie and her husband from My Wonderful Walls are two of those people. Creating individual works of art with their Kids Murals and Nursery Murals, this husband and wife team are growing their new business by planting seeds of love. Stephanie was so sweet to send Parker a…