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Shortlisted for a Brilliance in Blogging Award- Are you inspired?

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BIBs 2014

All in all it has been a great week, which I'm thankful for, because I've spent most of it shut in one room with two rather smelly dogs while the builders knock down walls all around me. The destruction is a positive thing though as with each day that passes we are getting closer to having a house that Dominic can be independent in. I hope if I keep telling myself that, then the bone-rattling drilling will start to become a more of welcome noise than it is a present. I suspect this might be a work in progress though. But ...

Should Awareness Days Try Harder?

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I thought that it was about time that I started linking to other things that I have been doing around the web. So here is a post I wrote as a columnist for Special Needs Jungle in the early hours of Undiagnosed Children's Day, where I found myself wondering if social media has made us lazy, and whether Awareness Days should be striving to get people to do more than just clicking a 'like' button. Especially when you consider just how much they mean to many of the people who are running them, myself included, and how asking people to ...

Undiagnosed Children’s Day 2014- The official video

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Undiagnosed Children's Day 2014

  For once I am going to take an uncharacteristically minimalist approach to how many words I use to get to the point. All I'll say is that when I asked for my children's help I was overwhelmed by how they all unquestioningly rallied to help me put this together. They are just as proud of the finished product as I am and so they should be as I'm sure you'll see how much work they put in to helping make it as wonderful as it is. Tomorrow is Undiagnosed Children's Day and I would love to show the kids how much of ...

How to be part of the official Undiagnosed Children’s Day 2014 video

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Undiagnosed Children's Day 2014
The idea is move as far away as we can from the ‘heart wrenching photo of a child with mournful music with informative text over the top’ approach and instead to reflect that all we want for our children is that they get to have a happy childhood just like other children. So I have decided to make a tribute to Pharrell’s ‘Happy’ video made from video clips sent in by families of undiagnosed children.

Happiness is a choice

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Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you choose to react to it... If living my life has taught me anything, it has shown me that human beings often underestimate what they are capable of. This lesson has been at the cost of somethng irreplacebale though. Pain, suffering, loss, loneliness, betrayal... it's all relative. No one person can lay claim to having more right to say they have suffered than anyone else. How we experience life's dips and trips is uniquely our own. We all have our own style of standing ourselves up, dusting ourselves off and moving on. ...