Childswork-Childsplay Blog

As I reflect on the qualities I most admire in my daughter there are so many stories that make me proud to be her mom. One stands out and shows the one quality I am most thankful for in her......

Through our years of seeking ways for my daughter to be a part of our community, the most special place we have found is as the manager/helper for our girls' high school soccer team. As I spend the month of...

We are a society of people who do not give "unnecessary" thanks. We don't go out of our way to praise people for doing the "right thing". And it doesn't matter why they're doing the right thing, whether it's their...

I've been a special needs parent for over a decade and I'm only 34 years old.  Special needs parenting is different for everyone.  Having said that, I think we can probably agree that while it can absolutely be exhausting, it's...

Dear Son, I don’t know if you will ever be able to read this. I don’t know that one day you won’t be able to read books of all kinds and share your thoughts with me. You are only three...

Childswork Board Game Giveaway We hope that you have had a chance to look around at the different products that we offer at Childswork. We strive to offer effective play therapy tools to meet the behavorial, social, and emotional needs...

Meet the Blogger- Jim Walter Hi! I'm Jim. I'm an engineer turned project manager by day, and a blogger by night. Like Batman but less important, and without the tights. Which is not to say I'm naked. I'm fully clothed....

As a blogger for quite some time now, I have sorta gravitated to certain types of bloggers. I tend to follow the bloggers that I can relate to. They aren't always special needs bloggers but they're real. By real I mean that...

The key to any therapeutic relationship is trust.  In order for a client to share important thoughts and feelings that are critical to the therapeutic process, the therapist must establish rapport building at the beginning of the relationship with the...

My daughter Brooke almost didn't make it into this world. She almost didn't make it because I considered terminating my pregnancy with her when I was 22 1/2 weeks along.... Yes, you read that right...I thought about aborting Brooke at...

Before I became a stay-at-home mom/zookeeper to four, I was the director of a nearby autism center. We ran all kinds of programs out of the university-based center but my favorites were the programs that involved the siblings. There was...

One of the toughest things that I can remember while going through the process of all three of my boys being diagnosed as having autism, was knowing where one ended and the others began. That may sound a little bit...