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Ready or not… A day in the life parenting Autism while climbing my mountains

September 20, 2015 8:32 am

Sometimes we have concerns about our kids doing certain things or going to certain places because we feel they might not cope with it or be ready, when actually they are more than ready. You know that thought you have when a new term starts and you aren’t sure if they are ready or will cope with SATs exams, going on a residential trip without you for 5 days, going abroad without you, starting big school whether primary or secondary or just doing some things they haven’t been able or wanted to do before. We teach our kids that All…

Back to School and Work Yay! A day in a life parenting Autism while climbing my mountains

September 13, 2015 7:47 am

Back to school is probably a phrase lots of parents enjoy the sound of.  Back to work is what we all dislike. However… at the end of this summer the ‘Back to School’ phrase made me happy but not for the usual reasons and ‘Back to work’ didn’t disturb me either. OMG I said that out loud! During the summer break we experienced a very traumatic event as we lost someone really really close in extremely tragic circumstances. Due to the complications around the death and police involvement there’s a long delay for the funeral which makes things so much…