{"product_id":"an-extraordinary-ordinary-life-paperback","title":"An Extraordinary\/Ordinary Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLucy A. Mueller\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn Extraordinary Ordinary Life: Insights from Parenting a Disabled Child\u003c\/em\u003e explores the eventful life of Curtis, born with a rare partial chromosome deletion, as experienced by his mother, Lucy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese stories and reflections are drawn from 50 years of parenting, preserved in notebooks, diaries, scrapbooks and art therapy journals. Like a spiral, the book centers on the role of the parent or caregiver, then looks outward to the child, the family, and to educational, medical, and other organizations in the community. All are involved in the complex process of providing services for the disabled child's special needs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLucy offers suggestions and lessons learned as well as the mistakes, problems, and fears she faced. Her parenting role developed over time, to become a team coordinator with the many individuals and organizations providing care for Curtis. This way of coping has worked for her, her son, and her family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLucy discovered that her drawings helped her to express some of the frightening and frustrating aspects of parenting. She pairs them with her story to better describe an incident or process of decision-making.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis story is about one extraordinary young man named Curtis, but it is also a story about choosing a balance in life; about choosing joy and appreciating the small details.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 142\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47192475468025,"sku":"9780578858234","price":28.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/YAv9UZkRdA9780578858234.webp?v=1767898913","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/an-extraordinary-ordinary-life-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}