HealthDay News recently reported on new research, which confirms that women who are involved in a good marriage are able to shake off the day’s stress when they come home. Researchers from the University of California in Los Angeles followed thirty couples, who were married, parenting children, and employed in full-time jobs. Researchers performed saliva test on each of the sixty spouses four times a day (early morning, late morning, afternoon and evening) for a three-day period to test for cortisol,... more

I rarely watch Dr. Phil. I find it completely ludicrous that anyone would believe for one second that people’s problems could be solved in a 60-minute show. And while, for many problems (and many people) the “suck it up” message is the right one, there are others (like parenting children with disabilities) for which the answers are not that easy.

So, when I heard that Dr. Phil was doing a show yesterday on parenting children with autism, I was only mildly interested. So it was completely by accident... more

Super Dad has been a bit frustrated lately. Things have been building up (over the last 18 months or so), and I think it’s partly because we both thought that our lives were only going to be temporarily altered by the due process hearing with the school and ultimately life would go back to some point of equilibrium. And, that hasn’t worked out at all like we planned.

I never dreamed that I would have to give up working at my consulting business entirely, and take on the full-time job of teaching LuLu. Super Dad wasn’t planning on a permanent reduction in household income, or a wife who... more

In a society where over 50% of all marriages end in divorce, learning that marriages where one (or more) of the children has a special need have an even higher divorce rate is not big surprise. Yet, divorce can be even a bigger tragedy in a special needs family than in other families.

As a person who has been down that path, I can tell you that the only thing more stressful, more grief-ridden, more full of life-altering challenges than divorce is parenting a child with special needs. I can’t imagine doing both together! I divorced years... more