| As parents we all want what's best for our kids. No | | | | child's life when he/she grows up. |
| loving, well-meaning parent would want their children to | | | | Impaired children or kids with challenges or handicaps |
| experience hardship as much as possible. We even | | | | are no exemption to this predicament. Special children |
| get afraid of thinking what their future might be like | | | | like them reserve the right to be treated as co-equals |
| once they finish schooling. It's normal. This natural | | | | just like any other normal child. They deserve fair |
| yearning to care is our driving force in providing the | | | | treatment rather than special treatment, pity or worry. |
| best for our young ones. In fact, we want what's best | | | | Sure kids with challenges, handicaps, or learning |
| for them so much that we fail to identify where the | | | | disabilities may get a free ticket in life but that's only up |
| lines are drawn between being parents and being | | | | until their youth. Once they reach the legal age of |
| mere spoon-feeders. | | | | majority which is 18 and when the school doors close |
| Let's not forget that as parents our measurable | | | | on them they're not immune anymore. They won't |
| yardstick for success depends on what our kids have | | | | stand a chance at life if they haven't been trained |
| learned from life's lessons. So if you're a parent who | | | | early on. |
| identifies your kid to be having difficulty in solving | | | | Children with challenges or handicaps will still need to |
| problems in life or taking responsibility in facing | | | | follow rules, regulations, laws, and work and social |
| situations, there's going to be a problem. | | | | ethics which they should have learned earlier on if their |
| Children who fail at developing their problem solving | | | | parents didn't treat them differently. They won't be |
| skills make up for it by showing bad, obnoxious, or | | | | able to get away with bad behavior because rules are |
| abusive behavior because they shun the feelings of | | | | rules and disabilities are not excuses for bad behavior |
| inadequacy or fear. These behavioral problems lead | | | | and rule-breaking. |
| them to developing low self-esteem which makes | | | | Life will not always be sunset backdrops and sunny |
| them more fearful of trying to solve more problems or | | | | days. We all know that and as parents the best thing |
| face new challenging situations. Low self-esteem isn't | | | | that we can do about it is to prepare our children for it. |
| the cause but rather the effect of poor problem | | | | Life should be about constant learning. What our |
| solving skills. You could only imagine the number of | | | | children learn affects their future and ultimately reflects |
| detrimental effects low self-esteem could bring to your | | | | back to us as parents. |