A little perspective; Parents arrange a special lesson on dwarfism to prepare schoolmates for son's move to kindergarten

The Boston Globe | January 10, 2008| | Copyright

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Holly Ambrose knows the other students will notice that her son Weston is different. That's all right. She just wants them to know why.

"Kids can be cruel, but also, kids can have an incredible capacity to be kind if they know what they're dealing with," she said.

Weston, a Millis preschooler, has a rare form of dwarfism called cartilage-hair hypoplasia. At nearly 5 years old and about 31 inches in height, he isn't yet much shorter than his classmates. The other kids haven't paid much attention to his stature, Ambrose said, and Weston himself doesn't fully understand that he won't ...

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