Your Kids Will Be Whatever You Make Them

Published: Feb. 17, 2020, 2 p.m.

b'Dr. Edith Enger\\u2019s son was born with athetoid cerebral palsy. A diagnosis like this would be scary whenever one gets it, but getting it decades ago was scarier still. Dr. Enger (then not a doctor) and her immigrant husband, who had both survived the Holocaust, were frustrated and confused and overwhelmed. One day, at a visit to the doctor\\u2019s office, Edith Enger expressed some of these fears and worries to the specialist. It was there that she got some advice that is worth sharing f...'