Showing posts with label January. Show all posts
Showing posts with label January. Show all posts

Downs Side Up's Ups and Downs in 2013: A Linky for 2014

Time to take stock

January is the time I like to spring clean my blog a little, cut the deadwood and look at it afresh after a Christmas break. It's easy to feel you haven't achieved a lot in a year, that you are stuck in a writing rut, but now's the time to look at even the smallest of steps forward, celebrate your achievements and motivate yourself for the year ahead.
Here's a taste of where Downs Side Up, our Down's syndrome support blog, has taken us this year.
I'd love to invite you to join the linky below with either your favourite post of the year or a summary of where your SEN blog has taken you or your cause, or simply a post about where you are heading in 2014. Please take time to visit and support others who link too, with lovely comments, that's how we draw our community closer.



January 

The year kicked off with a very exciting get-together of all the UK models with Down's syndrome that we could find, doing their bit for #adinclusion. Natty, Seb, Jojo, M&S, Next, Co-Op, Boden and more. We met at the Down's Syndrome Association head quarters incredible Normansfield Theatre. A place filled with the memories and the energies of those with Down's syndrome who had lived and acted there when John Langdon Down first detailed the condition, caused by an additional 21st chromosome. How far he pushed forward, but how much further our children can travel today, the world their oyster...




My Mummy and Me Magazine Article

Downs Side Up feature for the first time in exciting parenting publication My Mummy and Me Magazine this month. 


Check out our 3-page article on pages 24, 25 and 26, available as a free online download or a paper copy in the Liverpool area. We talk about what to say when a baby is born with Down's Sydrome and chat openly about our feelings at that time of transition for us.



See the other articles I have written to dispel myths and gently change perceptions from within hearts in our Published Articles Page
Would you like Downs Side Up to pen an article for your publication? Contact me on downssideup@gmail.com