Last week, I wore my Entitled Parent armor. The public school system accidentally failed to include summer bus transportation in my child's IEP; I discovered this and demanded a change. The new IEP made its debut. The transportation department blithely responded: "We'll address your bus situation, but this will take three to five business days." I've been around the "special needs" block, and I know it's illegal not to follow the specifications of an IEP, even for one day. (Never mind that I would be truly insane to bring this to court--and I surely would not win anything.) As I continued to push, I thought, how obnoxious it is that I have to spend time on this. Why is this something that needs to be on a parent's plate? Then I picked up Lauren Christensen's memoir. Christensen is over twenty weeks pregnant when she learns that her baby is dying in her womb. Though the baby won't make it, and though a full-term pregnancy would be a seri...