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Playgroup for disablities

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fairydust · 06/12/2003 09:31

As many of u are aware my dd has cp

this morning i got a letter inviting us to join a palygroup for children with disablities

does anyone else go to one???

and if they do is it just like a normal playgroup????

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eidsvold · 13/01/2004 19:42

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fio2 · 14/01/2004 08:41

glad it went well eidsvold, sounds like a lovely place. I wish we had access to something like this when our dd was smaller too. The nursery dd goes to now is wonderful but very hard to get into and a HUGE waiting list, so something like this would have been ideal

Cant beleive it is only 20 weeks until you move back to Austrailia! Have you started packing yet? Have you a house to sell? Are you going to rent when you are over there? - just being nosey and excited for you

Went back to weightwatchers after a month off and had put on 4.5lb, oh dear - mind you I suppose it only amounts to about a pound a week and I was extremely naughty!

eidsvold · 15/01/2004 19:30

we do have a house - I had a house before I came here to live and work and so I was renting it out whilst I was away - luckily then we have a base to return to rather than staying long term with family and friends. I know - this time in 20 weeks we will be over half way to Singapore.

We sold our flat here just after dd was born and so have been renting - one big thing not to do - we just have to decide what to keep to send to Aus and what to pass on.....

It is very exciting and I keep reminding myself when I have a bad day and the kids are playing up at school

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fairydust · 21/01/2004 20:12

well it's disabled playgroup tomorrow morning have decided to give it one last chance - hopfully other mums will turn up this time.

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fairydust · 22/01/2004 13:25

i feel so let down 2-day -

we went along to the group and meet to other mums - and i hated every bit of it they are so bitter and angry towards everything to do with children as if it's all a big inconvience for them to have children with cp.

One kept moaning about all the appointments she has and that shecan't be bothered to do physio on the dd has it takes so long - it was just a really bitter twisted time.

I love my dd no matter what and can't understand how parents can be that way.

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Blu · 22/01/2004 13:55

That's shocking! They can't be bothered to do physio? What a horrid lot. No wonder you are fed-up.

Lou33 · 22/01/2004 15:01

FD, it may be just their way of letting off steam. I'm always banging on about how many appointments we have, trying to fit in physio, and cope with my other kids, but it doesn't mean I don't love ds2, or that he doesn't get the treatments he needs, just that it all seems so bloody draining, we never have any time left for us. It's very hard work as you know, especially if you have other children to add into the mix. Maybe that's what they were doing.

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fairydust · 22/01/2004 16:55

thanks lou -i've had a sleep and feel a little better aboutit all - i don't think i will be gonig again as it was really upset me.

Pat the woman who runs it said the last couple of time before xmas they went all they did was leave the kids with her and sit in the pub part

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fio2 · 22/01/2004 17:27

yes I tend to moan alot too! But if you do feel really uncomfortable dont go again. I find some of the sn mums at my dd's school hard work too

eidsvold · 22/01/2004 19:39

I used to attend a mother and toddler group and found those mums hard work - and they had nothing to moan about really..... so I was glad when I went back to work and dd went off to nursery. I tended to not go as often.

Davros · 22/01/2004 21:39

If they bring you down, don't go, its the last thing you need. Maybe a CP social circle (!) will evolve over time with the kind of mums you feel more comfortable with.

Hulababy · 22/01/2004 21:45

Sorry to hear that it didn't go well fairydust

Jimjams · 23/01/2004 08:15

Just don't let it put you off trying another group if the opportunity comes up. I've met a wide circle of people through autism and some haven't been my cup of tea at all, others have become best friends. There will be people out there like you.

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