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Welcome to the world of lists! Whether it’s your day-to-day tasks, a special project, or your lifetime ambitions, lists serve as a powerful tool to manage your life efficiently. Lists can be particularly beneficial for parent carers, helping to manage the constant juggling between work responsibilities and caring duties. They allow you to unload the…
Do you sit in meetings or read reports and wonder what on earth this shortcode is that everyone seems to use? Acronyms are rife within the world of special educational needs and/or disabilities, or should I say SEND? Over the years, I have tried to keep a list of acronyms we’ve encountered. Last night I…
Unravelling Your Child’s Actions with a Reactions Tracker Alright, super parents, it’s time to put on our detective hats! We all know that raising a child with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) is a bit like being in a real-life game of Cluedo, but instead of solving a crime, we’re deciphering the mysteries of…
Congratulations, you’re almost there. Sign up today to come along to the free webinar giving you tips and tricks on how to make it easier for you to get back up after a bad day. As a parent carer, you will need to do this on a regular basis. Why not get prepared for this…
On the podcast today, I am joined by the very entertaining Emma Murphy. Emma is a special needs teacher, a mum of two boys and has a crazy springer spaniel who drives her mad and saves her sanity in equal measures. She juggles teaching part time with being a carer for her 10 year old…
This week I am joined on the podcast by Angela Kelly Angela is a parent and step parent to five children – two biological children and three step children, Her step children are all grown up. She also has three step grandchildren – who are all fabulous. Angela works as a counsellor and psychotherapist which…
Joining me this week is the lovely Emma. In the podcast we refer to Emma as Emma Barritt but she is now Emma Stoneman. Emma is a midwife who qualified during Lockdown. She is a mum of three, a runner (although she doesn’t think of herself as a runner) and in today’s episode she shares…
Isabelle is a mum of two extra-ordinary young people, one of whom has autism and learning disability. She has a post-graduate diploma in autism and ran an autism support team in a federation of mainstream primary schools. These days, she campaigns for homes not hospitals for people with learning disability and autistic people and also…
Why do we do it? We have these jobs we know we need to do but we keep putting them off. By doing this, we make the job appear even more difficult than it is. We give it a power and then even more amazingly, we start to believe the hype we have created.
Self care isn’t about making you the number one priority and ignoring the needs of everyone around you. Self care means “me too”.
