(((constantdreamer)))

I have wanted to share some of my thoughts and experiences with others on certain topics that I hold close to my heart as well. In my opinion, wanting to help educate the public on misunderstood illnesses and "conditions" is a very honorable desire to have and work towards! Kudos to you!

Personally, I would advise you to change a few things in your work (which you may or may not agree with).
1.) I would title the work, to gain the reader's interest.
2.) Are you trying to get the reader to understand your behavior or your child's? It feels like you are defensive about both. That's okay if you are defensive about yourself and your child, it's understandable when people judge you simply by looking at you for a minute. However, you may want to start the article with something real sweet and positive about your child (or yourself) and then introduce the problems that you often run into. If your article is about both of you, then I'd advise you to make it a longer short-story, like 1 or 2 pages. That would make the shifting from talking about you to talking about your child and other children with bipolar smoother, supportive, and more informative.
3.) Adding the online resources at the end is terrific, with professional sites. Very good! You may also want to add a book or two that you found to be helpful when you were learning about the disorder. Or when you look back at it now.

I hope that my insight doesn't come across as real critical ~ it isn't meant that way at all! If you do decide to send the article to magazines: Psychology Today might be interested. Certainly try Parenting, Parents, Parent & Child Magazine/Scholastic.com, and Family Fun though! I'm just not a newspaper reader, and I think that this article could be very helpful and reassuring to lots of parents and parents to-be.

Very best wishes to you!