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Good Parenting! What it means and being prepared to do it is highly ambiguous in nature. Most parents-to-be want to be good parents and readily believe they are prepared to be good parents. That is until the baby arrives. With every birth comes an even distribution of positive and negative thoughts and emotions. In typically developing pregnancies and problem-free births the positive features are more prominent but this can change dramatically when parents are faced with discovering their unborn fetus or their child has a genetic abnormality, birth defect, disability, or chronic illness. Children with serious medical illnesses and chronic disabilities endure many obstacles as they persist through cognitive, social, and emotional developmental milestones. Technology can function as a tool to help accomplish crucial tasks of parenthood by promoting many aspects of child development (Blanchard, 1997). However, a gap in the literature persists when it comes to how new technologies can provide critical information and support for parenting children with disabilities or chronic illnesses. The focus of this paper is on how new technologies can supplement and provide a type of co-parenting support for parents of children with disabilities or chronic illnesses.

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert