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This weekend I was on a mission. Daddy Bear was away and I needed to get two birthday presents plus some shoes for Big Bear. There was only one way to do it – I was going to have to take The Bears into town. On my own. Usually I plan my shopping trips strategically. I often pop into town …
Let’s face it, the weather on the Yorkshire Coast is pretty unpredictable whatever time of year you go. We often go during October half term and we’ve experienced heatwaves through to freezing temperatures. We went to Scarborough for a couple of nights on our most recent visit and our only full day there was a grey, cold and wet. …
There was a point in time not so long ago when I needed to leave the house by 9.30am every day. Not because I had to be somewhere but because I couldn’t stay in the house all day with Big Bear. You see, he’d get up at the crack of dawn and because he’s not very good at playing indoors …
It’s not even 10am and I’ve already made five phone calls to five different medical departments. The first was to chase up Little Bear’s speech and language report following a routine assessment at the end of May. Nobody answered so I’ve left a message and put a note in my diary to ring again in a couple of days if …
He finally got it. After six years, Big Bear received his autism diagnosis last week. I wasn’t sure how I’d feel at the news. J and I were fairly confident that he would get the diagnosis, although you can never be 100 per certain. Still, when you’re sitting in a room with someone telling you your child is autistic, it’s …
If you haven’t got a Max Card, you should consider getting one. It gives families of foster children and children with additional needs FREE or discounted access to loads of attractions across the UK. Families in Merseyside are well served when it comes to the number of attractions that accept the card, with huge savings at places including museums, soft …
I can’t claim credit for this idea as my mum made it but it’s proved such a hit in our house that I wanted to share it with you. The idea’s so simple: six baby birds sit in their nests while mummy bird feeds them worms. We’ve had it about two months now and Little Bear plays with …
“Did you have a good day?” I asked Big Bear when he came out of school on the first day of the new school year. “Yep”, he smiled. “He’s had a fantastic day,” his Year 2 teacher replied beaming, before listing all the things he’d done that day. He’d even received a merit for his hard work. “Brilliant,” I said …
When was the last time you had ‘one of those days’? You know, the days when everything goes wrong and you can’t wait until bedtime? We have elements of one of those days most days but I recently had a day that was particularly relentless. It started off well. We had a productive meeting at school to go through Big …
For the last couple of years we’ve spent our main family holiday on farms in Cornwall. The county is blessed with lots of fantastic farms offering similar experiences for families with young children. So far we’ve tried two of them with great success. The Bears love feeding the animals every morning, swimming in the onsite pool and playing on the farm. …