Parenting Children With Special Needs

Parenting is joyful, frustrating, exhausting and rewarding. Parenting a child with special needs gives you a double dose of it all.

You face challenges most parents never dream of. You juggle doctors, therapists, hospitals, insurance companies, pharmacies and the list goes on. Then there are the emotional and behavioral issues you deal with. How do you handle a child who forgets to take his critical medications or fights his medical treatments? What do you say when a sibling asks, "Will my sister always be like this?"

This is where Families By Design can help. Whether your child has ADD, allergies, asthma, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, Down syndrome, developmental delays, an eating disorder, hemophilia or any other special need, special parenting skills are needed to raise kids with special needs. Families By Design will help you find essential parenting skills to help your child cope well with challenges, comply with medical requirements and live a hope-filled life.