Child-Free.. as free as the wind blows..

This morning, without so much as a backwards glance, both our boys climbed on board a coach with their classmates and set off for their annual trip to PGL. For us, this means no children in the house for the next four days. We still have the dog of course, but he doesn’t put up [...]

ASD child? Are you getting what you’re entitled to?

If you are the parent of a child with an Autistic Spectrum Disorder, you don’t need me to tell you how difficult a ‘normal’ lifestyle can be. Not only will your child have some level of social and communication difficulties, they may well also need speech and language therapy or regular occupational therapy that unless [...]

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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