Why we shouldn’t always blame speech difficulties on deafness… 

When my then two year old deaf daughter was attending playgroups, so many people noted how fluently she signed. “It’s because she’s deaf,” they told each other, nodding heads. And when I expressed my concern that she could only vocalise one vowel sound and had zero lip pattern, they came to the same conclusion; “It’s […]

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The sacrifice a parent makes…

I’m not a typical “working mum.” I don’t leave home at a set time every day to return at the same time each day… Nor do I have a work routine. And the times that I do work are sporadic to say the least.  But I like it that way because it means for the […]

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Mindfulness and parenthood…

Once upon a time, back in the day, loooong before I became a Mum, practising mindfulness was just like practising another hobby. I had lots of time to fit it in and freedom of choice as to when and where I did it.  I recall long slow mornings that followed a predictable routine; mindful yoga […]

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