Showing posts with label special needs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label special needs. Show all posts

Monday, November 15, 2010

Something To Lighten The Load

For the first time I am joining in with the Special Needs Blog Hop. Please be gentle - after the last few months I am slightly delicate little petal-ish.

AutismLearningFelt


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This Weeks Topic:
Tell us a funny memory involving your child or children.

And don't we all have those, special needs or no special needs. My oldest, Boy 1, is my master of Aspergerisms. He is black and white, the monitor of all being right in the world. Actually he is the holder of all being right in my world due to his tight grip on my heart, but back to the giggle moment.

Being the information guru that he is, when he asked (Age 5) how he came into the world as he knew he grew in Mummy's tummy, we decided the best call was to give him the bare biological facts. Young, I know, but with a forever never-forget-one-little-detail memory we knew we had be truthful even if skimming the topic at hand.



And so I explained how normally one is birthed via the birth canal and the vagina or giny as we called it. Nodding wisely, he wandered off to ponder the complexities of biology.

At bedtime he came in with a big grin, ear to ear. He had mulled it over and come to the Boy 1 theory of his creation.

"I understand now Mum. I was in your tummy, then I came out of your tummy and you washed away the wees and named me L!"

Ah, if only it HAD been that simple. Gotta love life through the eyes of a child, even a little professor such as this.












 

Sunday, July 25, 2010

HELP!

Once again I am crying out to the blogosphere for your assistance. You probably read my UGLY rant a couple of weeks back, but it gets worse.

If you haven't already joined the Facebook page: PRUE MACSWEEN AND CHANNEL 7 SHOULD APOLOGISE then please do. And then you need to read this (her lovely note - oh, and Ms MacSween, you are the one who is in the wrong here, and YET you still do not get it, do you?). Oh, and she does not give anyone the right of reply! Ignorant, ignorant, ignorant! And her apology on Sunrise this morning? What apology? SHE said SORRY for using the word retard, but not once did she apologise for advocating our children be put somewhere and trained like monkeys, or dogs! She is unrepentant, arrogant, and blindly bigoted! She thinks ALL children should be nice little robots all conforming to HER social guidelines.

A lot of blogs I follow have the same feelings on this issue - disgust, disbelief, anger and frustration. PURE DISBELIEF AND ANGER THAT SHE IS ALLOWED TO CONTINUE TO CARRY ON LIKE THIS WITH NO REPERCUSSIONS!

What I am asking of you is to e-mail the Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Children's Services, Bill Shorten, to voice your opinion and demand action.



This woman is setting back standards for our children with special needs DECADES! What she advocates is tantamount to locking them away until they are acceptable! By whose standards I ask? Because I tell you right now THIS thing (for I cannot bring myself to class her as human) is NOT ACCEPTABLE to me!

Ugly, ugly, ugly.