spudfan wrote:

Anyway I noticed that our daughter, who is 23, had placed her doll, which she has had from a very young age, on the pillow beside my wife. The reason being that she did not wish to pass on her bug to her doll. When she has recovered she will take her back.
Like I said you just can't be too careful

spudfan wrote:

You have to throw the rulebook out the window. What someone else's child will do at six or seven might take until eight or nine or ten ...for my daughter to do. It just takes time and patience and to accept that your life will be slightly different to everybody else.... including retirement. It won't be just the Mrs and me looking at each in retirement as we will allways have our daughter with us.

My mate said there are special needs on his ex girl friends side, Their nephew will only talk about things that interests him, IE Computer games and that's it. He is a very bright lad my mate said.
i think there is more now for special needs than there was when i was at school, I have been left school now neary 17 years. So i was in school in the 90s and i dont think there was very much help back then sadly.

i do have a much younger sister who is about to turn 17, so i do see the parental side of things, as i treat her more like a daughter than a sister, That's how lucky she is. My mate said to me, ( who has 9 children now) he said go into their world, and look a Pratt etc, because they maybe wiping your arse when you get to that point in life. I did pass that info onto my pal that became a dad 7 years ago and that stuck with him to this very day, and he has turned out to be a cracking dad. you never really grow up do you
I really do have some very fond memories playing with my sister, 10 years ago. Building her tents and making lego buildings for her little farm set etc. Making up stories for her. Now its sod you Andy  Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back

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