For Part 1, please press here. After a year of disrupted education, Grown-Up Lad returned to school and decided to put himself forward...

We are a controversial lot, we parents with different kids. We spend our lives negotiating, trying to smooth a path through the rocky...

I love September, it always brings fresh hope and this year has given me the opportunity to put my mid-life crisis on ice for a while -...

Six years ago I trained to become a volunteer. The friend who ran the course recognised, tactfully, that it would be families like mine...

I lost my temper, blew my stack, hit the roof. I flipped my lid, flew off the handle, went ballistic. I might even have lost my rag,...

If you looked into my house, what would you see? Would you see two children sitting opposite each other at the dining table, quietly...

Something small and bleary-eyed has just flung itself into my bed. I'd like to say that it is because my youngest is super-keen to have...

Come out, they say. Come and see us, come and stay. Thank you. Thank you, thank you; it is wonderful to be wanted. I would, if I...

Ladies and Gentleman, we have CAMHS. Yes, you heard me right… WE. HAVE. CAMHS. Some of you will be looking askance, wondering, not for...

So, we are in. Well, half in. Well actually probably not even that far in but we are getting there. This house move has been pure hell...

None of us wanted to be there, especially me; ‘If this is a bloody support group, I’m off’. Twelve prickly strangers, corralled together...

Here we go again. Another birthday, another school change. A pending house move, the end of term. The changes keep coming and your...

‘OH MUMMY!’, his beautiful face lit up with excitement. Ear defenders on, eyes shut, leaning towards me and throwing his arms around my...

OH GOOD GRIEF, once I started I couldn’t stop. Inspired by the finest post I’ve ever read, SEND Bingo by the effervescent Annie at...

Dear Friend, You are setting off on a new voyage with your child and you may feel frightened, lost and alone. I want you to know that...

In our previous home it was almost impossible to get my children out of the house at weekends.  They wanted to hibernate and if they were...

We’ve had a breakthrough.  Over a year and a half after giving up wearing school shoes and about 2 years since a sock graced her feet, my...

First day of double school run.  Second day of No.1 child’s new school, first day of No.2 child’s new school.  Parent must be calm,...

It had been raining for days.  There were only a few places that we could visit without a meltdown and all but one of those was outside....

… when he is desperate to get on with his lego but someone has left a cup and straw on the table which makes him retch and panic and he...