Transcending Stereotypes: Parenting with a Disability
by Mary Grimley Mason
- USA -
When do the children of a mother with a disability discover that the outside world sees her as different or odd? Nair says her daughters hadn’t noticed her disability until her youngest, at eight, saw a boy with crutches and began to ask questions. Her daughter’s curiosity made Nair realize it was time to talk to both girls about her disability and help them relate to other people’s reactions to her.
