I participated in the Carnival of Family Life again this week, hosted by Ice Cream Is Not for Breakfast. In addition to my entry on what I learned from children's books, here are some more posts from the family-related assemblage that may be particularly of interest to parents of children with special needs:

• "Powerful Learning Trick" from Why Homeschool
• "10 Ways to Make Certain That Your Kids Hate School, Become Lazy & Dependent Learners, Drive Their Teachers Crazy, & End Up Living in Your Basement Until They Are 40" from Homework. Dinner. Life.
• "The Good Stuff Off the Spoon" from Life Without School
• "Acknowledging Vaccination Concerns" from Brain Blogger
• "Parenting a Child With Special Needs" from More 4 Kids

Have you seen any good special-needs blogs, or special-needs-related posts, around the Web? Share them in the comments.

_{Photo by Terri Mauro}

My daughter's current TV addiction is the Nickelodeon show The Brothers Garcia, and one episode she's watched several times lately involves the oldest brother shaving his head out of solidarity with a female schoolmate who has cancer. I thought of that story when I saw this site for St. Baldrick's Foundation, which takes that charitable impulse to go bald for a buddy and makes it into an actual charity.

St. Baldrick's organizes events in which volunteers can take pledges for shaving their head, with the money going toward cancer research. On the site, you can find an event near you; post a photo of yourself with hair to help gather donations; read the stories of children with cancer honored by event participants; and post your own child's story. There's also more information about the organization and where the donated funds go.