像其他安格曼（Angelman）综合症患儿一样，她的儿子贡卡洛（Gonçalo）在获得运动技能方面发展迟缓。
母亲乔琪娜（Joaquina）意识到，这种疾病特征可能令她的孩子可能无法起身走路，使她感到害怕。

一个孩子的第一步总是非常艰难的。在一次聚会中，乔琪娜观察到她的孩子对房子周围的气球的反应：贡卡洛想要努力抓住他们。

因此，乔琪娜有了一个想法：用多种颜色的气球填充她的家，使他们处于不同的高度，以鼓励孩子起床抓住气球。

结果非常令人吃惊！贡卡洛对气球的兴趣使他不断尝试抓住它们，最终能够独自站起来。

在这个方法的帮助下，Gonçalo现在已经完全能够在没有任何帮助的情况下站起来走路。

Gonçalo has an adoration for his father which leads him to having trouble sleeping whenever his father is absent. The mother had the ideia to create a doll with the smell of the father, filling her husband's clothes with stuffing. For this she stuffed a pair of pants and a sweater with foam and created an entire doll with the father's clothes, that she saves for those occasions when her husband is away.

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