Scottish Mum Blog - Writing from Aberdeen
Walking in the rain, or blogging in the snow. On the path to enlightenment, wear comfy shoes.
Image: renjith krishnan / FreeDigitalPhotos.net If you haven’t heard of the spartacus report by now, and you use social media, you would be a very odd person indeed. The report was initiated and created by a group of disabled activists who decided to do something about the plans that were being put through by our [...]
Image: Arvind Balaraman / FreeDigitalPhotos.net Helping us to help ourselves. I am going to give a bit of a mish mash mix up here I suspect. A conversation on Twitter last week showed that parents of children who are not disabled find it hard to start-up a conversation with the parents of a child who might have [...]
Saturday was a revelation. A group of parents run a special needs club at the weekends, with the support of a school and the grateful advice and help from the National Autistic Society. We borrow a school premises and open up to children with ANY type of disability up to the age of 14 in [...]
What is in a label? If I had a £ for everyone who said that they didn’t want their child labelled, I’d be doing quite nicely by now thank you. I have to wonder why we have such an aversion to labels, or names, or public affirmation of issues. Many do accept the [...]
Image: Clare Bloomfield / FreeDigitalPhotos.net We had a situation last week. I may be reading too much into it, but it really irritated me to the bone. On the way home from school, elder was very quiet and piped up that he had a letter than I had to sign for him to take [...]
This is a cup of coffee and a biscuit type post. Have you ever wondered what behaviour characteristics are common to a lot of disabilities? Many problems, such as Foetal Alcohol and Attachment Disorder, Pervasive Development Disorders and Language Disorders which are common in Adoption have more pronounced issues along the same lines, but [...]
Image: Naypong / FreeDigitalPhotos.net I am putting this post up as a result of something I saw on twitter yesterday. This IS my space, and I am not falling out with anyone because of it, but I’d like to set the record straight about some things and hopefully it gets taken in the right vein, [...]
For Thursday 7th July 2011, we were offered our first overnight respite from middlers non stop antics. It was a blessing in disguise, however you describe it. This post may lose me readers. This post may also make someone else feel not so alone. Lets take a day in the life of Scottish Mum and her family. It’s [...]
What did I learn from the conference in London for Cybermummy 2011? It isn’t a trick question, honestly. I learned that I am capable of doing more. This is not an ordinary blog post, I will save that for later. I need to get this out, and I need to begin talks. I am sorry [...]
Anyone who knows me is going to know what I am going to say about this hospital. The abuse at Winterburn View, the Castlebeck Private Hospital has shaken me considerably. These abused people are CHILDREN. They are in big bodies, but they are CHILDREN. Picture your two, or three, or four year old being treated like that. [...]
I have had much to do with this issue recently. I am aware of the effects, the guidance and the common sense. Having never been pregnant, I have no idea how I would have reacted to drinking alcohol if I was pregnant, but what I do know is, that it is worrying when someone who is 7 [...]
