Posted on 07/24/2019 7:51:50 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
Darius Brown, from Newark, New Jersey, was diagnosed with developmental delays, including speech delay, comprehension delay and fine motor skills delay, when he was just two years old. Since then, his mother, Joy Brown, and his older sister, Dazhai Brown-Shearz, have been working hard to encourage him to improve those skills.
Darius’s breakthrough came at the age of eight, while his sister was in cosmetology school. Dazhai was making hair ribbons for little girls and thought Darius could benefit from helping out with the project.
“With his fine motor skills, he wasn’t able to really use his hands well — tying a shoe was challenging,” says Dazhai. “My mother and I came up with the idea that if he helped us with things like prepping the ribbon or cutting it, and sewing fabric together, it would help him. And it did — it worked!”
Before long, Darius was getting good at making things with ribbon and was falling in love with his new hobby. He began to fashion bow ties for himself and wore them to school (and everywhere else) every day. Everywhere he went, people would ask him where they could buy a nice bow tie like his, so he started his own shop, Beaux & Paws, where he sold bow ties for people and their pets.
But the story doesn’t end there. Darius’s love for animals runs deep, so when he heard about all the displaced dogs and cats flooding shelters after the devastating effects of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, he knew he had to help in the only way he knew how. In an effort to help more animals get adopted from those overcrowded shelters, Darius began sending bow tie donations to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
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Every single one of my best friends were/are homeless animals.
Get happy. Adopt today
Kid's got talent.
Thanks for posting the pictures. I’m an old gal and very tech challenged.
I would adopt that littl black and white dog in a heartbeat if I could. Our rental doesn’t allow pets, and it’s killing me.
Thanks! The pictures are so sweet.
Those bow ties are so charming on the pets. God bless this boy.
Nice...he seems like he could be a success with the bow tie... might have to buy one....
Great idea! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the story. Never considered putting bow ties on the kids but they sure look good. We’ve adopted dogs, cats, horses and are still at it. Since our children grew up it’s what we do. Nice to hear and see good news.
Super cute!!
What a great story. Good for this young man. Just awesome
Nice story. The kid does indeed have talent. Those are some good looking bow ties.
Kid was on Shark Tank. Damon became his mentor.
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