Nobody's Perfect: Living and Growing With Children Who Have Special Needs | 
 enlarge | Author: Nancy B. Miller
Creator: J. C. Dieterle
Publisher: Paul H Brookes Pub Co
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 689285
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 155766143X
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.8286
EAN: 9781557661432
ASIN: 155766143X
Publication Date: January 1, 1997
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This innovative book's straightforward, easy-to-read chapters offer parents who have children with special needs a fresh, affirming perspective on the challenges of family life. Practical and nonjudgmental, this book guides parents through the process of adaptation. It describes specific strategies for success in balancing one's own life; developing a parenting partnership; and interacting with children, friends, relatives, professionals, and others. Candid, inspiring, and often humorous reflections of four mothers who are raising children with disabilities are included throughout. This book also provides an exceptionally sensitive portrayal of parenting and reaches across a wide range of special needs.
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 no one is alone January 2, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
a timely book for a friend who seeks comfort n assurance that he is not alone v an autustic son.
 Upbeat, supportive book for anyone affected by disabilities May 8, 1998
38 out of 39 found this review helpful
I first read Nobody's Perfect a few years ago when I met Nancy Miller. I wasn't searching for a book on living with children who have special needs but once I opened the book and started reading, I realized immediately that this was a book for everyone. Not only are we all touched in some way by special needs, we are also faced with life decisions, unexpected changes, catastrophes, emergencies, losses, illness, struggles... the list goes on. There are tools in this book that are valuable to all of us, whether our struggle is parenting a special needs child, or handling an illness or a crises of any type. I remember settling in with the book and beginning to read the opening stories written by Nancy's co-authors: Susie, Diane, Janet and Stephanie, also known as "The Moms." How did they adapt? How did they deal with their emotions? (and there are plenty of them!) What stages did they go through? Admiration set in as I read on. I've been able to take so many treasures from this book and apply them to everyday life. And you will too...
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