Making Sacrifices – Siblings of Special Needs Children

With Parenting comes Sacrifices They start with Sacrificing things for Yourself Then comes Sacrificing things that you Want for Your Children But what about when One Child HAS to Sacrifice things for Another I think when there’s a child with special needs in the family this may happen more. I have been thinking about the … Read more

Week 2 #365

Monday 7th Jan – back to school (playgroup) – I was so busy keeping him busy that I forgot to take him to the dentist. He couldn’t keep his eyes open for his story and managed to sleep a whole 45 minutes. Tuesday 8th – Nothing like dinosaur play to help develop the concept of … Read more

Sensory Processing Disorder

When our son started displaying “unusual” behaviour I just assumed it was Autism (my oldest son has Aspergers Syndrome), and that it was a case of getting it diagnosed (he’s 4 the end of Next April). But now I’ve been told to read this book about Sensory Processing Disorder. I think it was less worrying … Read more

Some things you just don’t want to do

Our youngest son most likely has Autism. I say most likely as we haven’t actually seen anyone that can officially give him the “label”  diagnosis. I would like to go and see the pediatrician, and for them to tell  me that, no actually he is fine – that I just have very poor parenting skills and … Read more