“I don’t know how you do it”
It is amazing how many times I hear this from strangers, family members and the random lady at the bank when the cheque was taking a while to go through…
Waking up from burnout
So I have been in burnout now for several years, I have been existing rather than living. Walking around with my head down desperately trying to get from one day…
Accepting the true (Disabled) me
I have always been broken however, growing up I never knew it. I knew I was in pain, I knew it hurt when I ran or climbed trees and that…
Our first caravan holiday in 4 years and we survived
Back before we had the children diagnosed, long before we had any clue what was going on with them, we used to go on caravan holidays. We used to do…
Changing our ways already
So we are a few weeks into the ‘summer holidays’ (I say summer holidays like this as ours in theory are to continue long term with fun becoming learning naturally).…
Riley’s start to home education
Our first week of home education began with not being able to leave the house as I was looking after Samantha who was still self isolating, so to be honest…
Learning to say yes
Back when we first started to have behavioural difficulties with Samantha, I was gifted a book ‘Learning to say no!’, strangely this was never a problem contrary to belief. My…
We took the plunge
21/06/2021 So after a weekend of struggles with Riley panicking that he was going back to school last night, we took the plunge and I officially sent the deregistration letter…
Another isolation, another practice run
16th June 2021 So we have had an unexpected chance to practice home educating before the end of the school year again. Off the kids went to school on Wednesday…
School refusal and mental health
Monday 26th April 2021 This is not unchartered territory for us. We went through 2 years of forcing Samantha to school. We followed the advice of the ‘professionals’. We ignored…