Manners from a Minister
Nice touch Mr Timpson. There are a few people who would do well to take note… a thank you is always appreciated. (although spelling my name right would have been an even nicer touch… )
Dear man in a suit: A conversation with Edward Timpson about SEN reform
The warrior parent. A much used label for a parent with a special needs child who fights the system until they are bruised and bloodied and then still gets up, spits out a loose tooth and goes in for a second round. Some parents wear this label as a badge of pride, and I completely
The unfixable
…There was more truth in that silence than any blog post or facebook update could ever have come close to. There was no way of parcelling it up, of telling the story, there was just a nothingness. No problem for me to solve, no battle for me to fight. And still I stayed silent.
A story of summer in status updates
Ok, so I’ll admit, I generally think that Facebook is a platform for us to all lie to each other and perhaps even to ourselves too. The funny incident with the duct tape and the baby sitter makes for a great update, but admit it, at the time it was just plain embarrassing, and perhaps a little unnerving. I think forcing ourselves to see the funny or ridiculous side of our human failings is a trait to be applauded though, all too often we take ourselves far too seriously, and if it takes a Facebook status to make us come up with another, more positive view of a situation, then it’s no bad thing, even if our sole purpose is merely to try and convince the world that we are funnier, smarter and have a better social life than any of our friends.
The very true story of the brave boy and his cowardly mother
What can children like Dominic teach us about life?…. and why should we listen?… especially when we have to let go of our much trusted coping mechanism in order to hear what is being said