Family friendly fun -
family fun and family health
enhance the quality of family life.

Family friendly fun offers a wide variety of family fun, family life, and family health topics including: adoption, baby care, celebrations and parties, children and teens, disabilities and special needs, education, employment and work at home, genealogy, budgeting and finances, family health and fitness, food and cooking, family fun and games, gardening and recreation, home improvement and decorating, inspiration and motivation, children's stories and poetry, family life, legal matters, medical, music, nature and pets, pregnancy and parenting, relationships, personal development, seniors and grandparenting.

We also offer a huge directory of well organized links to family-related resource websites. Our family health news page makes it easy to view several authoritative resources.

Our website offers a place for families with special needs to meet online, including an interactive chat room, bulletin board and eGroup forum where parents, caregivers and children can share stories, concerns, and support. We invite you to subscribe to our free periodic newsletter, for which we solicit articles from parents and professionals on a variety of topics.

For first time visitors, we suggest that you take a tour of our website by clicking on the animated yellow bus that appears in the upper right-hand corner of each page. We hope that you enjoy your visit and come back often.

Our website was conceived after our daughter Monica was born on December 22. Monica was born with multiple birth defects including skull and hand defects, an occipital encephalocele, constriction of the right arm and index finger, missing fingers on the right hand, and multiple handicaps including blindness, mental retardation and cerebral palsy. Two days after birth, on Christmas Eve, Monica survived life-threatening brain surgery - our own Christmas miracle!

At two years of age, Monica had arm and hand surgery, and at the age of 13, she had spinal surgery to correct scoliosis. We invite you to read Monica's continuing story of her struggles and strong determination to learn and enjoy life.

Initially, we developed this website to simply provide information and encouragement to other parents with a special needs child. As Monica has gotten older, we have encountered new challenges, adapted to changing needs, and continued to acquire more experience and knowledge. And so, this site has evolved and expanded in scope. In order to more effectively share this increasing volume of resources and information, we developed Special Needs Family, a web site devoted exclusively to resources for families with disabilities and special needs.

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Exceptional Parent is more than a magazine. We are dedicated to providing quality, reliable information for people with disabilities and special needs. For 33 years, our mission has remained unchanged: to provide practical advice and emotional support to families, physicians, allied health care providers, teachers and caregivers who are involved in the care and development of people with special needs.

EP was recently designated as the publisher of The Presidents Report on Mental Retardation, complete with the seal of the office of the President of the United States of America. We are also proud to say that EP is now the official family magazine of the American Academy of Developmental Medicine and Dentistry.

EP has continued to publish your stories; stories of parents and families who sacrifice everything and stop at nothing to provide the highest quality of care and support for their loved ones with special needs. We remain grateful for the work that you do and for your willingness to share your experiences with us. You inspire us all and are, after all, the reason for our existence - heroes in every sense of the word.

This website is funded by your contributions and sales

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You can now own this collector's item. Proceeds will support the efforts of this website and Crooked Rainbows.