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Month: February 2016

29thFebruary201620th April 2017
47

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

Baby sleep problems

In the dead, lonely hollow of midnight, my baby girl is screaming. She is feverish and blistered, baking in my arms. I pace and rock and shush…but still the screams come. She has been awake for hours, will be for hours more. At fourteen months, the nights she wakes and cries still outnumber the nights… Read More

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22ndFebruary201621st April 2017
63

A Small Thing

Biggest's shoes on the floor - an actual picture of the first time he took them off on his own.

It’s a small thing. So small. We had just returned from the shops and you were bundled up warm in your winter coat. I helped you take it off and off you skipped, into the living room. I continued to unpack the shopping and it was a few minutes before I followed you. And there… Read More

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15thFebruary201630th June 2017
25

Half-term

Half-term Revel in the sudden silence of peach-pink skies. Swim, hazy-eyed, through the vibrant globes of water-coloured evenings. Curl around the fluent curve of shoulder-blades, And drift in the warm, buzzing hollow of lavish sleep.   Wine-soaked nights brim with the clinking of expectant glasses. The glowing piano spills out its sound in pools of… Read More

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11thFebruary201620th June 2017
36

The Childcare Hustle

Frantically cleaning snotty eyes with baby wipes in the nursery car park. A dose of Calpol to reduce a slight temperature before you send them for the day. That little white lie that transforms a 36-hour vomit-free period, into 48. It’s the childcare hustle and, chances are, if you are a working parent to preschool… Read More

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8thFebruary201610th May 2017
142

An apology to my autistic students…

Blurred School for An apology to my autistic students

I am sorry. I am a good human being – a good teacher, I think. I listen, I learn, I strive to be better. I know it is a great responsibility to shape young minds, young opinions. I thought I knew what it means to teach a pupil with autism. But experience has given me something… Read More

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3rdFebruary20167th July 2017
6

A Beginner’s Guide to Stop-Motion Animation

This is an example of a fun task that you can do with slightly older children which is much easier to do than you might expect. I am by no means an expert myself, so this post should enable anyone to get started. There’s huge range and scope in the kind of thing you can… Read More

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1stFebruary201630th June 2017
35

Just Us Two

For some time now, I have been painfully aware of how rarely either one of my children gets my undivided attention. My daughter is a second child and her brother has recently been diagnosed as being on the autistic spectrum. She has not had the wholehearted newborn adoration her brother received. She has never been the… Read More

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I am Danielle and I am an ex-English teacher living on the border between Gloucestershire and Worcestershire. I have two children, a boy, 9, who is on the autistic spectrum, and a daughter, 7… read more

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