Let's Take Care - Support for Carers of Disabled Children and Young Adults
Melissa and Jane have been caring for their daughters for over 20 years, helping them to lead hugely successful lives. But they've made some mistakes along the way, and learnt a lot. Or, learnt the hard way.
They've been tired, burnt out, broke, ignored, isolated - yet still expected to keep going.
Let's Take Care is their way of helping other carers of disabled children feel less alone - and more equipped to cope with the realities of care that no one talks about.
In each episode they'll talk about the emotional and mental weight of lifelong care - what it's like to fight the system constantly and how to survive practically, emotionally, physically.
They'll be sharing what they wish they knew 20 years ago ... and hoping to make you laugh as well.
Let's Take Care - Support for Carers of Disabled Children and Young Adults
Let's Take Care - Extreme Parenting - the latest book on raising children with disabilities
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Welcome to Let’s Take Care. In this episode, we’re talking to someone who knows only too well what it means to fight for your child.
Jane Holmes, CEO of Building for the Future, has written Extreme Parenting, a deeply personal account of raising her daughter Kitty, now 24, who has Cerebral Palsy.
It’s a story about love, exhaustion, resilience and the constant battles that so many families of disabled children face behind closed doors.
But it’s also a challenge to the misconceptions and negative attitudes surrounding disability - and a call for change.
In this episode, Jane talks honestly about why she felt compelled to write the book, the experiences that shaped it, and why she has chosen to donate all of the profits to the chairty Building for the Future.
https://www.bftf.org.uk/
Email us at: letstakecare@bftf.org.uk
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