I think moms can work at home, be homemakers or work outside of home and still be great moms. The most important part of mothering is being there for our children. Maybe your sacrifice is going to work but spending your precious little free time reading your child a bedtime story every night, taking him to park on Saturdays or chaperoning your daughter's school dance. What matters is our input, confidence in our roles as mothers, knowing we are best person for role and to understand how valuable we are to society.

Pat yourselves on backs moms … you've accomplished a miracle! There is no greater sacrifice on earth, in my opinion, than making decision to be a parent. Know how important you are. Know that your children need you to be as solid an individual as you can be. Therein lies your strength as a mother, whether you spend day at home or in an office. We are all exceptional women in our motherhood.

Some public schools have excellent resource programs for learning disabled child. Most private schools do not have room or inclination to support a resource curriculum, however, there are private schools that cater only to learning disabled children. These schools can be frightfully expensive but many are only hope some children will ever have for academic success. One girl we know came home from her first day at one of these high-priced schools elated and said: "I'm finally learning something!" Wow ... her mother told me this with tears in her eyes. This school has a variety of classroom environments, each supporting a different learning style. Their philosophy is that children learn differently, be it auditory, visual (the normal school methods cater to visual) or tactile. The children are grouped with other like-learning kids to create auditory, visual or tactile-learning classrooms. Obviously, they are on to something.

Parents with learning disabled children need to work with their kids, helping with homework and assignments more than average. If you are parent of a learning disabled child, there are resources available today that were not around just a few years ago. Know that there is help for your child and for you. Ask your child's school about resource programs, recommended methods of working with your child at home and any other useful information they can and will give you. And remember that your child is probably going to grow up to become one of more valued members of society if they are gently guided and helped through beginning years of academic training.