A message to Parents: You need to recharge. You work hard. This is especially true if you are the parent of a child with special challenges. You are often, if not always, on high alert.  This is not you being selfish, this is not only survival, BUT guaranteed you will be a better parent if you get refueled in a way or a variety of ways that work best for you.  Ideas:  read a book if that relaxes and refreshes you, go out with some friends to a ballgame, eat chocolate,sit quietly in a coffee shop ALONE or with a good friend, attend...