“she dares treat him like she would any other child in her family”
Shocking! How dare she decide to not comply with the Politically Correct Methods of Raising Children with Downs-Syndrome!?!
In my opinion, treating a special needs child (who is as capable of understanding and complying with parental expectations as any other child his age) as normally as possible is important.
Far too many parents these days are willing to justify a mentally handicapped child’s poor behavior. In my view, if your child is truly so handicapped that he cannot be expected to behave appropriately in a school, restaurant, store, park or (insert any other place here), then he (or she) should not be brought to those places.
I’ve never found Down Syndrome children to ever be a problem. They seem like loveable, docile kids. Now kids with autism - it can be a different story. But I don’t blame the parents either on that one - those poor children are truly afflicted.
Now superior children with high IQs and liberal Democrat parents - they are something else again. They should be shoved in closets with tape duck over their mouths!