Many parents, somehow manage to get their highly anxious children into school on a daily basis. Despite the refusal, the tears and whatever else is thrown at them, somehow they manage to talk their child into school.

“I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And my music has never really had a home. I've been this floating alternative. I'm too mainstream for an alternative. I'm too alternative for the mainstream. And I'm just kind of wandering.”

The best barometer of a child's happiness is the presence of a smile.

This week we had our first ever parent's evening at my son's new secondary school. If you've read my previous blog on feeling despondent you will have some understanding of where we were a few years ago.

Why is today so significant? For one child at least, today is significant because today is the deadline by which the Local Authority (LA) needs to decide whether or not to undertake an assessment for an Education Health Care Plan (EHCP).

For children that are struggling in school, the feelings of frustration can build and build, and alas there is rarely a ‘cheat’ way out.