Wheely, wheely awesome.

So yesterday we all, as a flat, went off to a Go Kids Go wheelchair course. I’ve heard about these guys from Kate and Sean before, they’re a wheelchair skills teaching charity for kids and young people with mobility challenges. The thing that’s truly awesome about Go Kids Go is that, if they wish, everyone works in a wheelchair. Kids, siblings, carers, parents, grandparents. You want a chair? They’ll give you a chair for the day. My main drive for the day was similar in my drive to learn sign language. I feel it’s important that anybody involved in the care of kids is able to contribute to that slow, osmotic learning that happens with every child on every day. With a kid who can walk and talk, you’d correct their pronunciation, or hold their hand as they tottered along a low wall. If I can’t expand the kid’s signing? Or talk him through how to navigate everyday life in the chair? Then I’m not a carer. I’m a watch-dog. So off we went and met another half dozen or so families, all of whom had kids with varying degrees of mobility and ability. Big empty gym hall, huge array of wheelchairs, both adult and kid sized and a clear message that if you want to be on a chair, then you go ahead and grab that chair and play. We raced up and down the hall, we played British Bulldog (with all the aggression and brutality of the bipedalist variety I remember from school). We danced and wheelied, we practiced falling ...
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