A semblance of normality: An ex- lawyer/ stay at home mum/disabled mums view

When was the last time you fell over? I don't mean a little trip I mean ending up on the floor! I fell over about an hour ago, which is the second time this week, that I have ended up on my bottom.  I will admit this is unusual. I am extremely careful after spraining my ankle in 2015  (which wasn't great. It was a day into the 6 weeks holiday and was surprisingly painful  - with all the brain surgery etc and 2 c-sections that easily hurt the most!). I will never forget my automatic feeling of not concern about it really hurting - I thought  I had broken it - but the upset it was going to set my physio back! What has been surprising is how ok and generally acceptable it is for me to get hurt, on a  daily basis. Quite often I have big bruises and won't know how I did it. It’s not because it  didn’t hurt, it probably did, but it is just my normal now and I get on with things. I wouldn't think even to mention it unless: 1.    ...

 Why don’t my children eat? I ask myself constantly. I know what you are thinking: “MY children eat, she must be pandering to  them in some way” and “don’t give them anything else. If they are hungry  they will eat” But here’s the thing. I am really not pandering to them. My children simply  appear to have wills of iron when it comes to food – and yes, they will go hungry. I have heard it all when it comes to solutions to picky eaters. ‘Don't give them any choice’ is one classic. I don’t. ‘Just keep putting it on their plate ultimately they will eat it’ is another. Mine haven't and they’re 7 and 9 years-old. But I still persist, putting food on their plate for them to waste. What I have learnt is all that all the advice is complete rubbish when it comes to  my own children. Over the years I have tried lots of things to encourage them, including going to a special children's group for picky eaters. The end result was after 6 weeks my ...