I am hoping you all had a happy and healthy Christmas and New Year. Unfortunately, like many others, our lead up to Christmas didn’t go quite as I had planned…
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…
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…
As expectant parents we develop a picture in our minds of what our lives might be when our baby arrives. Most of us safely deliver a healthy baby and go…
When you’ve cared for someone for almost 25 years, you’ve been the one to ensure all their needs are met, made all their medical appointments, attended them all and arranged…
Employing someone to work in your home is a big decision to make. In this post I provide a few tips and suggestions based on my own experience of employing carers…
As parents we’ve all been there. Your toddler is having the mother of all tantrums in the middle of the supermarket aisle and you want the ground to swallow you…
I think it does. We are all used to being pulled in many different directions. We are parents, partners, children, siblings, friends, employees or employers, the list goes on. We…