Learning Challenges and Moms

Vicki Davis's sixth grade son wrote a great essay on the importance of character. What struck me was not her son's essay but her preface to it. The post is entitled, "The Essay that Rocked my world: The Personal side of LD." Both Vicki's son and I have special ed. issues. (Apparently we are also both pretty intelligent.) But, more importantly we both have extraordinary mothers, mothers who realized that we had issues and helped us overcome them.

I wrote a comment in response to Vicki's posting. It's not up yet, but hopefully if you go over to her blog you'll see the comment. In this comment I thanked my mother for watching out for me when I was too young to watch out for myself. I thanked my mother for making sure that I had access to the opportunities that I have today. I think we need to thank all mothers.