Why I turned my back on my TV news career

Recently I appeared in Woman magazine – a small section in a feature entitled, “Meet the regret-me-nots” My piece was headlined, “I regretted becoming a full-time mum”, which isn’t strictly accurate – rather I found myself, like many mums who give up professional life for stay-at-home motherhood, feeling a certain wistfulness for opportunities forgone. I [...]

What did you miss? Special Needs stories from the last week

It’s a bumper round-up of special needs stories and blogs this week – check out what you might have missed: Independent: Very interesting perspective: Eton head: Axe GCSEs and leave all exams until pupils are 18 From Bucks Free Press: Three special needs units to close under Buckinghamshire County Council plans   The Press Association: [...]

Resilient Parenting – A Guest post by Lesley McCall, NLP & Hypnotherapy Practitioner

Happy New Year! At this time of the year, we’re often thinking about how we can change our lives, and those of our children, for the better. I’m delighted to have a New Year guest post from Lesley McCall, an NLP practitioner and Hypnotherapist. She is experienced in helping people with parenting issues and with [...]

Buddy Brilliant! – NetBuddy – A Great Special Needs Resource

www.netbuddy.org.uk is an award-winning website for parents, carers and learning disability professionals. It is a space to hunt for practical ideas, swap tips and access information on everything from brushing teeth to challenging behaviour. Like all good ideas, it’s so simple it’s hard to believe no-one thought of it before. So what gave Netbuddy’s founder, Deborah [...]

Books I recommend for Special Needs

I have quite a collection of books about special needs and parenting and thought I would share some recommendations with you. I usually buy mine from amazon.co.uk, so I’ll link to each book so you can have a closer look. 1-2-3 Magic – Thomas Phelan – This is an absolute must for all parents who [...]

See my other blog – Not As Advertised

I’ve decided to start a second blog. I know, that’s just greedy but there are plenty of them to go round if you want your own. It’s called “Not As Advertised” and it’s for all those posts that I don’t want to put on here because this site focuses on special needs. It’s about how [...]

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