I love these ads that are running in the United Kingdom. I suggest you take a few minutes to explore the Creature Discomforts website, especially the information about the people behind the characters. The ads are based on the work of the creators of Wallace and Gromit, and the goal of the ads is to…
Category Archives: Dealing With Public Perceptions
Decisions
This April, my first born son would have been celebrating his fifth birthday. He would have, except that he died, when he was five days old. Five years is a milestone. A milestone for a little boy, A milestone for a mother, A milestone in grief. Five years, all the books state, is when most…
Special Needs?
I’m not sure Ivy qualifies as a special needs child. For the last four months we have had a fairly ‘normal’ life. Or normal, in comparison to four months ago, at least. It’s funny how we gage things, isn’t it Because it’s not really normal that my, just turned three year old, understands what a canula is,…
What Do You Think?
I’m a recent convert to the world of Facebook. For years, I’ve avoided social networking sites, but when a friend introduced me to Facebook, I started to find real value in it. And, unlike MySpace, it doesn’t seem filled with hormone-ravaged teenagers, but rather, adults – families – professionals. I’m able to keep in touch…
Immy’s wish.
When my daughter, Imogen, was seven years old, she sat on Santa’s lap in the shopping centre, closest to our house and asked for one thing. She asked for new teeth. Grade two had been particularly hard for Immy as she had been the brunt of playground teasing by some horrid little girls who obviously thought…
A Matter of Etiquette
This is a topic I’ve written about on my own blog before now, but felt it was worth revisiting here – not least to get some other opinions about it. My wife and I were in the supermarket recently when we saw a mother with 2 kids – one was about 18 months old and…
Close up and personal
When I first started blogging and went in search of sites written by other parents of children with Down Syndrome, one of the things I noticed was a distinct lack of photos. Maybe it was fear of strangers seeing their children, or maybe it was just a level of ignorance about how to upload pics,…
Interesting news item about DS
Down’s births rise despite tests More Down Syndrome babies are being born [in the UK] than before pre-natal screening became widespread, figures show. The UK saw 749 Down’s births in 2006, up from 717 in 1989 when tests came in. See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7741411.stm I think this gives us all a bit more hope in the world…
Wonderful Things I Wish We Didn’t Have
Our weekend was really ridiculously busy. We went to a hockey game where my older two kids got to announce the start of the game and we sat on the ice smack dab in the middle of the two team benches. We spent the after-game time meeting the players and letting the kids get autographs….
Acceptance Is Not Submission
This quote recently popped up in the little quote of the day gadget on my desktop and stuck in my head: “Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you’re going to do about it.” Kathleen Casey Theisen Not too long after entering the world of special…