Kids Like You, Kids Like Me

For anyone near the Chattanooga area, the Creative Discovery Museum has a really neat exhibit right now. Kids Like You, Kids Like Me has the theme "A Day in the Life of a Child with a Disability," and really stresses how all kids are more alike than they are different. Your kids will have the chance to do all sorts of activities with different "disabilities." It's a GREAT way to break the ice and talk to your kids about children with disabilities, and teach them that we're all very much alike!

I know....I know...I don't have kids! But, I feel really strongly about this because my mom was a pediatric PT, and I have ALWAYS been around kids with disabilities (you know, before the days of HIPAA, I would go to work with her and "play" with her patients as she did therapy). When I went to school, I stood up for those kids (ahem...and got many checkmarks by my name and sidewalk sits during recess for bullying the bullies who were picking on my friends with disabilities...ahem). I never saw them as weird just because they had to do things a little differently than I did. I hope I can teach my kids that same thing one day.

So, if you live anywhere around here...GO!

The exhibit is open from October 10, 2009 through November 8, 2009. For more info on the Creative Discovery Museum, you can go to their website at www.cdmfun.org.