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10 October 2013

Parental Guidance Required

I have four children, their current ages are 16, 14, 11 and 8. In the eyes of the law however my eldest child is in a grey zone, hovering between adolescence and adulthood. You see I have recently discovered that the years between 16 to 18 mean different things depending on what you are looking at.

When Theo turned 16 he proudly reeled off the list of all the things he could now do:-

Ride a moped, buy a lottery ticket, drink alcohol if it is with a meal, fly a glider...

That was the interesting stuff.

But what about the other stuff? The stuff we really didn't think about until it started to impact his life.

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This is the story of my family, and how we are learning to thrive and not just survive when life didn't go quite as we planned.

I'm Steph, a suburban mother, sometime Marketing Director, now family plate spinner, journalist, carer, nurse, spokesperson, campaigner and marathon runner (actual as well as metaphorical).

I have four extraordinary children, my two boys have a diagnosis of high functioning autism yet they could not be more different, my eldest daughter is a creative social justice warrior, my youngest daughter was born with a very rare genetic condition.

In December 2015 I also became a widow, my husband, the father of my children & partner of 27 years, Andy, died of cancer, leaving us with a gaping hole in our lives. 13 months later our darling daughter Daisy died.

My life was never going to be predictable but as Andy always said, it is what it is, it's how you respond which makes the difference.

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10 October 2013

Parental Guidance Required

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