Getting troubled kids riding high with the brilliant Wave Project

While I was doing some research for DysNet, I came across a fantastic project that uses the beautiful Cornish coast to help young people in difficulty. The Wave Project is such a brilliant idea and is a volunteer-led organisation that uses surfing and the sea to improve the emotional health of young people. It is a [...]

SNM Holiday 3: Incident on the beach

So, we were well into the holiday, we’d done Goonhilly Earth Station where Asperger’s Son2 had had a tantrum because he wasn’t heavy enough to go on the Segway Tour and then Asperger’s Son1 had a tantrum because we said if one couldn’t go then no one would (to avoid unbearable crowing afterwards). We’d done [...]

SNM – Holiday 2 – The Zoo

We booked a day as a zoo-keeper at Newquay zoo for the boys. This was an unparalleled success! The day involved being taken around the zoo with a zoo-keeper, togged up in a special ‘junior zoo-keeper’  T-shirt, feeding the otters and the penguins and generally get a behind-the-scenes look at the life of a zoo [...]

Special Needs Mum.. on holiday 1

It’s that time again.. the long (3 weeks in our case) Easter break. We took advantage last week of finishing a week earlier than state schools by heading down to Cornwall to stay in a beautiful lodge at a country club, before the price went up. The boys refused to travel without extra pillows, soft [...]

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