by Jad Orlinska | Feb 5, 2013 | Blog, Special Needs
As I looked out through the kitchen window one afternoon I saw Eden, my youngest son, returning from school walking down the garden path towards the front door, looking like he was under a cloud, not in a good mood … I could tell! This was the way he often returned...
by Jad Orlinska | Feb 5, 2013 | Blog, Inspirational Parenting
How to connect and draw teenagers closer We were packing up the car to leave on a long journey, well a four hour one and to us Brits that is a long journey! The boys, my two youngest sons, about thirteen and sixteen at the time, climbed in the back. Eden, the...
by Jad Orlinska | Jan 24, 2013 | Blog, Inspirational Parenting
I was thinking the other day, I hear a lot of people bemoan the behaviour of their teenagers and I have certainlly had many challenges with mine, what I realize is it isn’t just the teenage years, it goes on beyond! My twenty two year old is extrememely good at...
by Jad Orlinska | Jan 24, 2013 | A-Z of Parenting, Blog
Had a day today dedicated to doing lots of things for my boys and had the thought that Parenting really was like having their own P.A (Personal Assistant!) I’m sure that’s what they think I am a lot of the time! Maybe that’s what Pa-renting really...
by Jad Orlinska | Jan 2, 2013 | Blog, Inspirational Parenting
Today, I returned home in the early hours of the morning, after a long and brilliant five day training course in London. My boys, eighteen and twenty one knew I was coming home today, I’d told them it would be some time in the morning or at least some point...