So, I’ve decided to start a blog which will be mainly about myself and my 8 year old son, Riley. I feel that I have so much on my mind, that I am using the old adage of a problem shared.
I am a full-time working mum, an English teacher, which is ironic as you will find out if you keep reading. I desperately looking for ways to go three days a week, but financially it does not seem possible. I do feel like I am on the crest of a wave though and that I am going to bite the bullet soon. I want to use the extra 2 days a week helping Riley and writing my zombie novel.
Riley is dyslexic, he was diagnosed last year, but we had suspected it for a while. He also has ADHD, hyper mobility and poor fine motor skills, but I’ll talk about them at another time. You would think that a diagnosis would mean that you then had something to work with, but that is not the case in all of Australia except for NSW which recently passed a bill recognising Dyslexia as a learning disability. It infuriates me that this is not recognised as a disability by our government and I hope to work on changing this through my blog.
Riley’s very expensive school do not seem to know what to do to help his learning, so one morning a week we pay a specialised reading tutor to work with him. As an English teacher and lover of reading and writing it breaks my heart to see him struggle so much.
My husband and I have oodles of debt, like lots of us. I’m very creative with and talented at getting new credit cards approved, which, paired with a taste for expensive clothes and regular holidays (I do get 12 weeks a year after all) does not help the situation.
Last year I did the Cohen’s diet and lost 16 kilos in 3 months, but I found that when I went off it the weight started to creep back on. For the next 8 days I will be trialling the Attack Phase of Dukan Diet. If it works, I will look amazing!
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