One thing that kids teach you is patience. When they are babies and cry, you have to try and figure out why they are crying. Since babies can't tell you why they are crying, you have to try and guess. Are they wet, need a hug, want a bottle, to be nursed? A lot of times you can tell by the type of cry what they want. As they get older and learn to walk, you have to be patient as they toddle, then fall, toddle then fall, until one day they walk or run right towards you. As they get even older (tweens and teens), if you ask them how their day went and they say, "fine" you have to be patient and hopefully they will REALLY tell you what happened in their day. When you are a parent of a special needs child, you really learn the meaning of the word "patient." Milestones are much, much harder to achieve and sometimes they never are. Right now, we are dealing with an issue with Dominic that is really testing our patience. After months of really hard wor...
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