What Day is it? You did What???
It’s Thursday, it’s day no idea of national lockdown 3.0 here in England, how’s everyone coping? For me I am sitting here having made the decision last week to send two of my children back into school...
View ArticleAre We There Yet……Life in Lockdown
Are we finally coming to the end of what has been an extraordinary, challenging year? Lets face it, the life of parents everywhere has been invariably change at some stage or point in time during the...
View ArticleSleep….Its not Happening
For many children with ADD/ADHD sleep can be a really stressful and upsetting time of the day. I know for us personally even with medication for one of our daughter’s, she still finds it hard to settle...
View ArticleNeurodevelopmental children…OMG the shops are Re-Opening!!
If you saw me in the street or the supermarket with a 11 year old child, who looked more like a 15 year old, sat on the floor screaming at me, red and flustered, crying, shouting and basically having a...
View ArticleDid You Realise Your Only Human? Look After Yourself
I’m writing this blog, curled up on the sofa, in an empty house. My girls are all at school and college and my husband is out at work and for the first time in four days I’m allowed to just sit and...
View ArticleA Carer’s Support System – Looking after my Mental Health
When things get difficult who do you as a parent, husband, wife, son, daughter, brother, sister, friend turn to? As a Parent / Carer who do you have to support you? Having a support system in place is...
View ArticleHooray for Good day
Being a mum is not always all doom and gloom as we all know. Some days make us feel all giddy inside and others make us feel like tearing out our hair but let’s talk about the good times. With summer...
View ArticleJust Keep Swimming……Children’s Mental health
This title feels very apt at the minute, I feel as a parent that I am constantly try to keep my head above water. Raising special needs / disabled children is taking everything I have and the shore is...
View ArticleSibling Wars….Living with Mental Health
Stop press….. Who ever said parenting was easy should come and live in this house. On a daily basis I feel sorry for all my children. Each special in their own way, each trying to grow and learn and...
View ArticleIt’s really been a year??…..life as a mum to extraordinary children
I can not believe it been over a year since I put pen to paper…..well actually yes I can as I have no idea where the time has gone. It seems to be a blink and miss it scenario at the minute. So much...
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