With the new term in full swing, a We Are Family member reflects on the transition to secondary school and the progress made by her son. An optimistic and insightful perspective for anyone going through or anticipating this big move.
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It’s all going to kick off. I have a new job, which is exciting and scary. It also means that our kids will need to get used to a new carer.
In Sleeping Beauty the King and Queen invite all the fairies in the kingdom (except one of course with disastrous consequences..) to bestow gifts of beauty and character apon their new daughter the princess Aurora and whenever I read it it strikes me they massively missed the point.
…I don’t have any answers. It just hurts. And I pray that the projections are very, very wrong.
The first time I met Digger, I thought his smell was strange, and truth be told, unpleasant, vaguely off-putting. It made me very worried. How could I bond with him if I didn’t like the way he smelt? Was it a fundamental dislike I had sensed? Was adopting him going to unravel because of it?
Dear makers of Inside Out,
I just wanted to write and thank you for what I consider to be one of the best films ever made.
To explain, I have found being an adoptive Mum, at times, an extremely difficult and highly charged emotional experience.
And so it begins… This week, this long awaited week was your first at school. I can barely believe it as I type the word- school! the very idea seems quite preposterous for someone as young as you are.
