Decoding Dyslexia OH

Today, on International Day of Charity, a day to reflecting on the wisdom and grace of Mother Teresa, a woman whose humility and compassion have always inspired me. Her words, “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples,” remind me it’s the everyday kindness we offer that truly makes a difference. She also said “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” Let these simple but profound truths guide you to live a life full of purpose, kindness, and love!

Being a parent of a child with dyslexia and other disabilities is challenging. This quite is very accurate! (FYI this is written with preferred spelling from the UK)

(Image: drawing of a person sitting with their knees up and their head down and a quote from the book "The Scars of Dyslexia by Janice Edwards - “The parent of a dyslexic faces the continual strain of having to watch helplessly while your child suffers, often while the authorities blame you for the problem, which would be unthinkably brutal with any other form of handicap. Add to this the stress of having to spend huge amounts of time and energy trying to convince teachers and assorted experts that something is wrong and that the child will not just magically develop delayed skills ‘in his own time’ or ‘when he is ready.’ Colour the picture further by imagining the pressure of perhaps a husband who is not convinced, or who has similar difficulties which he feels guilty that he might have passed on, or the nightmare of reliving disastrous experiences of one’s own schooldays. On top of this families find themselves involved in expensive private lessons, independent psychological reports, extra travelling cost, and educational equipment or books to purchase… The endless drag of parents’ evenings where teachers list your child’s academic shortcomings, and tell you off for their behavior; the jibes of other smug parents rejoicing over their child’s advanced reading book to be taken home whilst your child runs out in floods of tears as the only one in the class not allowed a reading book as she cannot even read the cards; long hours spent struggling with an exhausted emotional child over words and symbols, tables and sums, facts and test; the panic over public exams…”)