A Sentimental Look Back at Times Past I am not what you would call a hoarder but like many people I keep treasured little things. I recently had a reason…
'The little “Ugly Duckling” of this story, takes her mother on an incredible spiritual journey. Bree is a teacher of Swan.' Wendy Gilker's book is the true story of her life…
We all come in different shapes and sizes. We don’t all conform to standard, off the peg sizes in terms of clothing but generally we are able to find what…
“If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all” – Thumper, Disney Bambi (1942) Why does anyone ever need to say something unkind or behave towards others in an…
I know many 26 year olds won’t wake up at their parents’ house on Christmas Day. This will be the first time James hasn't though. My ‘mum guilt’ is off…
What are schedules? Schedules are a series of symbols, pictures, photographs or words and are used to show the steps of a specific activity or routine. For example, preparing a…
When you have a child who hasn’t made much progress developmentally for many years you will know how hard it is each Christmas and birthday to find new things to…
Two weeks ago our guest blogger, Karen Merry, wrote about her experience as a special needs parent. As Karen said, parents the whole world over have different ideas on what…
This week our guest blogger, Karen Merry, writes about her experience of life as a special needs parent. In 2019/2020, 80,135 children in England with a statement or Education, Health…
Positive Strategies for managing and preventing out-of-control behaviour' Jed Baker earned his MA and Ph.D in clinical psychology from the University of Albany. He is the director of the Social…