My original blog on Never say Never
attracted a lot of hits (thousands) and spurred a number of comments. I am pleased to say that the last two weeks for us have raised the bar even higher and got us shaking our heads in bewilderment. I watched as my wheelchair bound son ride a surfboard …
(I have to pause and re-read that sentence again as, even now, there is still a level of disbelief!)
Penny came home a couple of weeks ago to advise me that our youngest (William) was going on a school excursion to Canberra and that she was going to accompany his class as one of the volunteer parents.
Apart from the fact I liken, volunteering as a class parent on one of those trips
to the slow and consistent pain inflicted when whipping yourself with a cat-o-nine tails, she was determined to spend quality time with William.
There were stages of our lives where we thought the only light at the end of a tunnel was an oncoming train and we would often wonder, How are we going to get through this?
, but we do and generally we find it all works out in the end.
We try and focus on the positives that come out of every situation. In essence, we always look for the silver lining in every cloud. We don’t deny the existence of the obstacles that are right in front of us, we just focus our minds on what is the good that will come from this opportunity.
As parents of children with a disability, we live life closer to the edge
than most, but what does it take to step off?
There was a news story recently where a father of three children drove onto one of the largest bridges in Melbourne, Australia, stopped the car, removed his four year old daughter from the car and dropped her over the edge, then drove off.
Rodney Clarke Welcome to the Hey Dad blog … my name is Rodney Clarke and I suppose I qualify for the Hey Dad blog page for one major reason … I'm a dad! More about me…
