A mother’s account of a child’s sudden stutter reframes her guilt about impatience and daily caregiving.
I snapped at my children. Resented daily pickup. But I was there when he needed me, and my perception of myself completely changed I still can’t pinpoint when it happened, but it felt as though my child lost the ability to communicate overnight. Of course, that is not what happened, and he never lost the ability to communicate. But it felt as though he did at the time. And even with the benefit of hindsight, it felt like he went from a chatty three-year-old to being unable to get a sentence out…
A parent of a child with anaphylaxis explains why blanket nut bans can create false reassurance rather than safety.
Alison Smith says food bans do not improve compliance, they create a false sense of security in patients As the mother of a child with anaphylactic allergies, I am sympathetic to the terror that Lucy Pasha-Robinson describes ( Food allergies when flying are no joke. That’s why nuts should be banned on planes, 27 August ). Indeed, last summer I spent six hours compulsively cleaning on a demonstrably filthy flight. Flight crew handed out wipes to passengers “to clean your tray tables”, then proce…