When it comes to raising children with special needs, it's the small things that many parents of "typical" children take for granted that can present challenges. Take Halloween costumes, for example. Most of us just want to make sure our toddler daughters don't look like young prostitutes or that our sons don't pick something too terrible or tacky, but others have to consider things like wheelchairs and how well they'll work with a particular look.
One dad recently grabbing hearts on the internet got incredibly creative when it came to a costume for his son, Carter. According to the Huffington Post, Carter has spina bifida, and uses a wheelchair to get around. Last year, his dad came up with this brilliant ice cream truck costume.
With "Buster's Ice Cream" painted on the side, Carter drove it around decked out in a professional looking white uniform. The tinny music playing as he drives just makes it all the more perfect. Check him out in action after the jump.
Wanna bet Carter got more candy than anyone last year?
It's that kind of creativity shown by this dad that can make the difference I think in teaching a child to embrace his or her differences rather than hide them. What a wonderful example they both are. I hope whatever costume they come up with this year goes viral too so we can all see what they do next.
How do you teach your children to embrace the things that make them different?
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This is so so adorable.....awesome dad with an awesome blessed kid! blessings to you guys!
That is so awesome!
way to go dad!! that was amazing and i love it! and that sweet little boy had an absolute blast, i'm sure. stuff like this reminds me there's good stuff still going on in our world today. :)
awesome
This is so awesome. I thought I was creative for dressing my son up like DJ Lance Rock for Halloween when he was stressed about his glasses. He was two and every costume we showed him he would shake his head sadly and say, no glasses. When he saw the DJ Lance costume he screamed, Glasses. I am so glad this Dad was willing to think outside the box to give his son an awesome Halloween, but what will he do this year?
That's awesome! There's a whole section devoted to wheelchair-including costumes on coolest-homemade-costumes.com. This should definitely get submitted there! they give out cash prizes!
I vote for Batman in the Batmobile.