Sensory Needs
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Why Is Everything So Expensive?
A simple question from my son — “Why is everything so expensive?” — opened a window into the hidden costs of parenting a neurodivergent child. From clothes that never get worn to food that’s suddenly rejected, this is the reality behind the price tags. Continue reading
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How many blood vessels are in your body?
We were travelling to the swimming baths in the school holidays, all 5 of us. This was somewhat of a miracle. Lately a day out with all of us had seemed out of reach and what usually happened was I stayed with my son and my husband went out with the girls. This was disappointing Continue reading
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Can you practice singing Happy Birthday to me?
We were getting to my son’s birthday. The countdown was well and truly on. He was counting down to his birthday and also counting down to his birthday month. He had a birthday list of presents as long as his arm. He kept asking about it, over and over again. “How many days until my Continue reading
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Why do you have your eye on me?
Understanding Eye Contact Struggles in Children If you had read “Have I got one eye or two eyes?” you would know that eyes have been a talking point for my son. You would also know that he doesn’t like being looked at and I take this to mean he struggles with eye contact, but this Continue reading
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How Can I Support My Child Across Two Homes?
Throughout this blog, I’ve avoided touching on a particular subject….probably because I didn’t want it to cloud anyone’s judgment about my thoughts on my son. But now feels like the right time to discuss it, for two key reasons. First, because it’s a serious concern in my eyes, and second, because I honestly don’t know Continue reading
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Who won the World Cup in 2018?
No blog about my son would be complete without a blog post about football. This is actually the second post I write about his love for football, the first being Who plays for Millwall that used to play for Middlesbrough? All boys love football don’t they, supposedly, that is certainly the stereotype anyway and so Continue reading
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A Poem – I’m Bored!!!
The second poem in my series of poems. If you didn’t see the first one, He’s Fine, Click here to read. I hope the poem below highlights the frustration my son feels. I’m Bored! I’m bored he said more and more,At every opportunity he said galore.Morning, noon and night,He always seemed wound up so tight.Even during Continue reading
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What happens when the year turns to 3?
We were on holiday in London (more on that later) and sat in The Natural History Museum having dinner. Things had been fairly tense all morning and sat in a restaurant is always tense due to the noise and food and smells. So when my son asked… “What happens when the year turns to 3?” Continue reading
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Glasses and the Many Many Questions of My Child!!
For those of you who read my last post you will know that my son has needed to get glasses and seeing my son adapt to this has been quite the spectacle (!!!). Him having to wear glasses didn’t bother me, I wear glasses, my daughter has also worn glasses since being a small child Continue reading
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Can we restart?
It was the Sunday before the Monday going back to school after the Easter holidays and I was trying not to get anxious about what might unfold. My son had a hard time going to school and because he had just had 2 weeks off this back to school was going to be even worse. Continue reading
The Questions of My Child 