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…
I thought I would tell you a bit about me and some of my goals
Are you really good at being there for everyone else but fail miserably when it comes to asking for help when you need it?
The list is actually endless. It doesn’t need to cost anything but your time. Yes, you can buy a coffee for the person behind you in the queue or even pay for a meal for someone, but sadly not everyone is in a position to have spare cash.
I love cheese & onion crisps – but only if they are soaked in salad cream (don’t ask)
I wanted to share with you some books I have loved over the last few years. Books guaranteed to encourage, inspire and motivate.
Life on the SEND Line is a never ending rollercoaster, catch a reply of a FB Live I did about life on the SEND Line.
Its’ not the critic who counts
please, when you see him do not say “oh bless him”. The number of people who say this is unbelievable. It’s as if everyone thinks that because his eyes don’t work, his ears have stopped working too. He can hear you!
Why can we not just say thank you and move on? This is something I have been thinking about for some time. I like to give compliments but I am useless at receiving them.
As we sat down to dinner over the weekend, I asked “if there was one thing you could do once a month, just to make you happy, what would it be?”
It has taken me a bit of time to be able to write this post as the pain of hearing those words was almost my un-doing. I’m seen as a strong woman who can handle anything that is thrown at me; and, to be honest, I like to perpetuate that myth – in the hope that it will one day be true.
I am talking about the men who do things like:
– load the dishwasher
– iron their shirts
– feed the children
– bring the washing in
and then tell you they have done it “for you”
We ended up on the hard shoulder so I could let him look down my throat and see for himself that there was no frog down there.
When you find out you’re pregnant, you wonder what sort of parent you will be. When your child arrives, you wonder what sort of character they will be. As they grow, you wonder if you are getting this parenting job right. Is your parenting helping your child to be confident in their ability? Is your…
Today I lost a friend. Those five words cannot convey the heartbreak I am feeling. I lost an amazing friend who has been part of my life for over 20 years. He was the type of friend everyone should have. My life was certainly richer for knowing him. Who was Jeremy? A friend who didn’t judge. A…
Today has been one of those days when I wanted to just say “stop the ride, I want to get off”. Yesterday my gorgeous youngest son started to have unexplained black outs, so as we have an amazing GP, we went along last night. We had to return this morning for bloods. Now, Emla cream,…
As a parent of three children with a variety of SEN and Disability, I often said “I just wish they would show me some respect”. One day I was challenged to define what I meant by Respect, so I went to several parents like me and asked. This is what they said What else…
Why did I think driving 300 miles on a Bank Holiday would be a good idea? Why did I think Bank Holidays and Motorways would ever be a good combination? My day started badly when I was setting up the kids DVD players in the car and managed to lock myself into the back seat….
So often we write down our complaints, our bad experiences; we write about the people who made us unhappy today or the comment that you read that you felt was aimed directly at you. Today, however, I want to write about the things and people I am thankful for. The good people often get taken…
Many years ago, before I really knew what I was doing with videos, I put together a compilation of the everyday things families of children with disabilities go through. The everyday things which may be in one set of case notes but not another, or more likely not in any notes, the everyday things parents…
Many years ago, a practitioner sat in my home – perfectly groomed – and stated that she understood what my life was like. I knew that she could empathise but not understand – not unless she was a mum of a child with special needs too. Today Video: In order to deal with my frustration, I…
I spend so much time with parents and often hear how they would like a magic blue pill to make everything better. Here is a letter to my children about a magic blue pill. I would like to start with saying though that my children do not have health issues which involve many many hours,…
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