Posts by rforsythe

Amy Zimmerman  As a co-leader of Destination Discovery at GiGi’s Playhouse, I have the privilege of seeing discovery happen in many forms. Sometimes it is loud and joyful — a child laughing during a movement activity, proudly completing a craft or excitedly exploring a sensory bin. Other times, it is quieter — a child trying something for the first…

It takes a village to raise a child. There’s a reason this statement isn’t in quotation marks. For any of us with children, we know all too well that this isn’t just mantra, it’s fact.   When my daughter Selah was diagnosed with Down syndrome, fears immediately flooded my head – How would I support her? How would I learn to deal with the medical complications, the learning…