Discovery Channel Documentary -- FAMILIES NEEDED

Parents Forum Learning Differences and Challenges - LD, ADHD
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<p>We are filming a documentary for the Discovery Channel and are looking for families to participate in one day of filming this August or early September.</p>

<p>Have you been having one of those weeks where your children are driving you crazy and it’s about all you can do to stay sane? Are your children going through a period where they seem to be completely out of control? We are making a film about family life and some of the issues that parents are facing these days. We would love to find an interesting family to share their story.</p>

<p>Please e-mail <a href="mailto:erika.shepley@shinelimited.com">erika.shepley@shinelimited.com</a> and tell me a little bit about you and your family, and I will get back to you.</p>

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<p>Dear Ms. Shepley, </p>

<p>I find it somewhat offensive that you have decided to post this request on the LD board and not on the more general Parents' Board, or perhaps most appropriately in the Parents' Cafe where certain amount of discussion of out of control children seems to have gone on recently. Your decision to post here, and only here, would seem to me to reflect some unfortunate biases and stereotypes regarding youngsters with learning differences and other challenges that I assume will be reflected in your production. And the tone of the first two sentences of your second paragraph....! No thanks.</p>