What would you do if you had a child with disability?

Would you isolate your child from his friends? Would you feel ashamed of your child? Would you tell your child that he’s lacking in something?

Or would you rather treat him as a normal person? Give him the same treatment as what you would do to a normal person?

It’s important for parents to educate disabled children not to be looked down by others by teaching them disability doesn’t equal lack. They can become anything they want.

Want proof? Here’s how a man without limbs but one hand became a lawyer. But he had to go through more than a normal person had to before he becomes what he is today because of prejudice.

We all have disability. Some visible. Some not. Then why the heck that we have ignorance on physically challenged persons?

But I digress.

In my humble opinion, here is what you can do if your child had disability:

1) Teach them to accept their co-called disability (as I said, who doesn’t have one?)

2) Teach them how to handle teases from friends while maintaining their self-esteem.

3) Reassure them you love and you’re proud of them for who they are, from time to time.

4) Give them ample space to grow, don’t overprotect them.

5) Look for help (medical or otherwise) to reduce their disability, if possible.

6) Help them develop their talents.

Ironically, these are the very same things that parents should do even to normal kids. Don’t you agree?
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No I’m not talking about a new technology of getting rid of diapers. In contrast, it’s a very old-fashioned way.

Just this morning, after my son woke up, as usual, I will have to change his diaper before sending him to the babysitter. I just chucked aside the used nappy and put on a new one for him.

He pointed to the diaper on the floor and mumbled something a one-year-old would do. Since I ignored him, without any delay, he quickly stood up and picked up the diaper from the floor.

I thought he wanted to play with it. I tried to stop him. Even before I could do that, he already walked away to the back of the house in the kitchen. And came back empty handed.

I was curious what he did to the diaper. He must be throwing it somewhere. After I did some CSI-type investigation, I found out that the diaper ended up in the dustbin.

I was not convinced. Maybe the one in the dustbin was not the one we had just changed. I looked around the area hoping to find another one.

It was a futile search and how wrong could I be! Sure enough, the diaper in the dustbin was INDEED the one that my son picked up from the floor. And he helped me dispose of – nicely and quickly.

It was a surprise to me indeed. God knows how fast a child learns. He learns that a used diaper needs to be thrown away (in his naïve mind: put it into a dustbin) by seeing what we do. Amazing, huh?

Well as I said at the beginning, that’s my new found, good old way of getting rid of diapers.
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