What You Should Say to a Special Needs Parent

"Yes, we realize that there are about a hundred things you need to be doing too, but if you see us attempting to wrangle our child mid-meltdown in the parking lot as our grocery cart slowly rolls backwards away from our car and into the middle of the road, please feel free to bring our cart back for us, or distract our other child who may (occasionally) feel as overwhelmed in the fray as we do. We're not asking you to unload our groceries or strap our kids into their car seats, but even those 10-20 seconds of your time can change our whole day around."