At the end of January I was honoured to be a co-organiser of the first PDA conference in Bristol focusing solely on adults. It was the first event of this size that we’d organised and not to sound big headed but it was bloody good and well attended. Feedback was extremely positive. ...
The second child left on her 18th birthday …she came to our home at 8 and had very serious bonding issues. They both were the 2 we worked with the hardest. I can’t help but wonder if we cheated the 2 youngest trying to save the oldest 2. As a mom I cry almost every single ...
While, after seven months of sitting with it, I can wrap my mind around my “mild spastic diplegia” cerebral palsy affecting darn near every muscle group in my body at this point, I still struggle with the expression of spasticity in my throat equaling a constant, strep-throat-like pain....
So your son brought his girlfriend to a family birthday party for you all to meet her for the first time and you had a problem with that? You were willing to meet her somewhere else at another time, just not at a family birthday party. Was it because she is black or some other cul...
She is controlling, rude and I suspect has mother issues due to the suicide of her mother (which may be the reason she has pushed me away). I have tried to be kind, compassionate, giving and loving, but have received abuse in return. On my birthday, they came over and wanted us to...
Bringing food to the center is also used to mark personal joys as a birth of a grandchild, or a birthday) or collective holidays joys. Attendees love to celebrate and make each other happy in this way. (S7) Attendees are also driven by the need to alleviate their feelings of loneliness ...