Monthly Archives: June 2012

The Tooth Fairy is not Psychic!

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Violets Diary

WARNING – This Post is Not to be read by or to small children! OK, – caught! A couple of days ago as B was going to bed he announced to Daddy that ‘the tooth fairy hasn’t been’. Well, I … Continue reading →

Posted in family, Uncategorized | Tagged childhood myths, children, family, growing up, parenting, parents, tooth fairy | 10 Comments

Feelings of Sadness for parents of disabled children

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Violets Diary

I read a blog post last night which made me feel so sad. It wasn’t the post itself that upset me, but many of the comments left and reactions by others who seemed very quick to jump to conclusions and … Continue reading →

Posted in Aspergers, campaigning, disability, Uncategorized | Tagged asd, aspergers, aspergers syndrome, assumptions, autism, awareness, behaviour, behaviour management, campaigns, challenging behaviour, children, disability, disability campaigns, disability equality, disability rights, Disablism, discrimination, exclusion, FEELINGS, inclusion, judging, parenting, parents, rewards, rights, school, school trips, special needs | 18 Comments

The Road To High School Begins

Posted on June 26, 2012 by Violets Diary

Well the end of primary school is getting ever closer and things are starting to get more difficult round here. For all children the transfer from primary school to secondary school is a big deal and is fraught with stress … Continue reading →

Posted in Anxiety, Aspergers, disability, family | Tagged anger, asd, aspergers, aspergers syndrome, autism, behaviour, children, disability, family, FEELINGS, high school, parenting, parents, school, school transfer, seondary school, siblings, special needs, support, visual impairment, young people | 4 Comments

School Fair Guilt

Posted on June 23, 2012 by Violets Diary

This is challenge, I’m going to try to write a short post – not easy, as you may have noticed I’m not good at short! This afternoon is the school summer fair. We are going – for a bit. The … Continue reading →

Posted in family | Tagged children, family, fetes, fun, guilt, help, mums, parenting, parents, PTA, school, stalls, summer fair, work | 10 Comments

A weekend of Music and Running

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Violets Diary

I mentioned in Wednesday’s post that we had a really good weekend. It was one of those weekends where all the social buses come at once and we had to decline about 3 invitations to a wedding, a party and … Continue reading →

Posted in disability, family, visual impairment | Tagged asd, aspergers, aspergers syndrome, athletics, band, blindness, children, clarinet, competing, disability, family, Metro, music, paralympics, parenting, parents, running, sight loss, special needs, sport, success, vi, visual impairment, young people | 2 Comments

The Campaign for Accessible Transport

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Violets Diary

This week has been so mad, there is so much going on here. So many issues and so many things to talk about. I don’t really know where to start and I haven’t got a lot of time to write … Continue reading →

Posted in campaigning, disability | Tagged accessible transport, buses, campaigning, campaigns, channel 4 news, disability, disability campaigns, disability equality, disability politics, disability rights, discrimination, inclusion, independence, london transport, nogobritain, protest, public transport, right to ride, rights, social model, social model of disability, transport | Leave a comment

A bit of Good News

Posted on June 16, 2012 by Violets Diary

Just to prove that I don’t spend my whole life ranting about the system and that I am capable of sharing the good things, I thought I’d tell you about a little bit of good news we had this week. … Continue reading →

Posted in disability, Uncategorized | Tagged advice, Aiming High For Disabled Children, asd, aspergers, aspergers syndrome, autism, blindness, children, children & families, disability, disability rights, disabled childrens register, family, holiday, Local Offer, parenting, parents, respite, short break, sight loss, social services, special needs, vi, visual impairment, young people | 2 Comments

Neighbours, Everybody needs Good Neighbours.

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Violets Diary

I wrote this post last week, but for various reasons have left it until now to publish. This post has been inspired by two things I read last week. The first was something that made me really cross. I read … Continue reading →

Posted in Aspergers, disability, family, Uncategorized | Tagged asd, aspergers, aspergers syndrome, assumptions, autism, children, disability, family, fear, meltdown, neighbours, parenting, parents, police, special needs, stress, teenagers, understanding, young people | 21 Comments

Anxiety and Things to Do

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Violets Diary

I’m feeling a bit frazzled at the moment. There is too much to do, too many things, not enough time and I’m beginning to get myself in a mess. This is actually a huge issue for me. I have big … Continue reading →

Posted in Anxiety, Aspergers, disability, Uncategorized | Tagged anxiety, asd, aspergers, aspergers syndrome, autism, blindness, blog, children, coping, disability, disability rights, family, lists, mental health, parenting, parents, rights, sight loss, stress, things to do, vi, visual impairment | 16 Comments

Are We Nearly there yet? – The long wait – for a guide dog!

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Violets Diary

Anyone who is a parent will be familiar with question / whine. “Are we Nearly There Yet?” Well, in our house the question for the last year asked, almost on a daily basis by B is: “Daddy When are you … Continue reading →