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Should we be banning Father’s Day?

Jun 17, 2018 | 12 comments

I recently saw a debate on television about whether Father’s Day should be banned as the numbers of single parents are on the rise. Whaaaat? Even if that’s the case and a mother is raising her children alone as my mum did for years, they didn’t arrive as the product...

Pregnancy & Parenting – expectations vs reality

Jun 3, 2018 | 0 comments

June is the month of my boy’s birth. As I write this blog, I was 28 weeks pregnant 13 years ago, looking like a weeble and peeing roughly every 45 seconds! (only a slight exaggeration) *Note, I have NO photgraphs of me when I was pregnant as they were all on my...

What face equality means when your twin has a facial disfigurement.

May 23, 2018 | 4 comments

23rd May 2018 is Face Equality Day organised and championed by the fantastic Changing Faces charity. I wondered for a while what I could write that would do the day justice. Should I explain my sadness when others stare or grimace at Harry who looks so different to...

7 reasons why it’s okay not to be okay as a parent

May 20, 2018 | 0 comments

I had a bad day as a mother recently. Well, technically it was a bad ten minutes but the aftermath of emotion and exhaustion stayed with me for most of the day. I took to my Facebook page to share the reality of parenting on a live broadcast in the hope that other...

Blood is thicker than water – true or false?

May 13, 2018 | 4 comments

There’s a saying that ‘blood is thicker than water’ which means that family bonds are supposedly stronger than those of friends and I’ve been giving this some thought lately. A while a go I wrote a blog called ‘3 reasons why I can’t die’ which explains my emotional...

Am I a carer ?

May 2, 2018 | 4 comments

I am mum to a son who currently needs a lot of support with many aspects of his day to day life including dressing, self-care and eating. As he gets older, the ways in which I help him may alter but there is little doubt that he will always need me in a way that his...

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