Our BlogCadre pal, Kristina Chew, has been profiled in an article about special needs mothers in the May issue of Working Mother magazine.  Here's a snippet from the article:

Moms who have children with special needs often neglect themselves during their consuming quest to help their kids. Here, they share ways they’ve discovered to take care of themselves, too.

Kristina Chew teaches with her cell phone on. More than once over the years it’s flashed in the middle of a lecture with the number of her son’s school, prompting her to pack her things and rush to her car to pick up Charlie, now 10, who was diagnosed with autism at age 2.

Charlie’s bad days have weighed heavily on Kristina, a classics professor in Jersey City, NJ. She would often leave her office early to drop off a prescription or rush to school because Charlie was banging his head on the floor in frustration. Still, she considers herself fortunate: “I’ve been lucky. Because I’m a professor, I have a flexible schedule and have been able to get home in time to pick him up from school. But it can still be very stressful to make it all work.”

This is my first blog that I have written. I needed an outlet for my thoughts. I yearn to talk to others who share the goings on of my day.I feel overwhelmed, and sometimes frantic. I want to know all there is to know about autism, selective mutism, etc. What can I do,what can I research, what strategies do I use to reach my students! I have literally read at least 2 dozen books, hundreds of articles and attended countless conferences on these subjects. Am I doing enough? I know I can't save the world, but I want the students to leave my class after 3 years with a sense of independence, success, and a great self image, and self esteem.