Episode 35: “ How’s your daughter doing?”…and brace!

It's such a small question. "So, how's your daughter doing these days?" And yet it can wind you completely, because how do you answer, in a supermarket queue, when the true answer is so much bigger and heavier than anyone's expecting? In this episode I talk about the quiet grief of comparison. The milestones other people's children are hitting. The Facebook posts you scroll past with a lump in your throat. The family gatherings that leave you aching. And how we learn, slowly, to stop measuring our child against everyone else's and start seeing the enormous, invisible things she's actually achieving. If you brace yourself every time someone asks about your child, this one's for you.