Book by Booth, Tim, Simons, Ken, Booth, Wendy

Outward Bound: Relocation and Community Care for People With Learning Disabilities

Politics & Social Sciences

Booth, Tim

Booth, Wendy

Simons, Ken

Social Sciences

Open Univ Pr

Growing up with Parents who have Learning Difficulties

Growing up with Parents who have Learning Difficulties uses a life-story approach to present new evidence about how children from such families manage the transition to adulthood, and about the longer-term outcomes of such an upbringing. It offers a view of parental competence as a social attribute rather than an individual skill, assessing the implications for institutional policies and practices. The authors address the notion of children having to parent their disabled parents and argue for a shift in emphasis from protecting children to supporting families.This innovative book provides a fresh approach to a subject rife with prejudice and challenges us to think again about many taken-for-granted ideas about the process of parenting and the needs of children. It also demonstrates the power of narrative research and its capacity for bringing alive people's experience in a way that enables us to better understand their lives.

Routledge

Provides new evidence and insights derived from original research and life stories to answer questions about what it means for a child to be brought up by a parent with learning difficulties and whether this affects their well-being.

Growing Up with Parents Who Have Learning Difficulties

When I Died For The First Time

Tim Booth became the mid-wife for this manuscript when Seth Brakes's attorney had instructions to pass this directly on to him if anything happened to Seth, and unless you've been hiding under a rock, you will know that something has happened to Seth Brakes. Did Seth really choose to send it to Tim because a psychic told him to? Tim can't think of any other plausible reason. To his knowledge Tim met Seth two times. Once at a party and once at Brian Eno's house where he dropped in on one of Brian's acapella nights. He was not in a great condition and found it hard to sing Gospel and Folk songs he was unfamiliar with. Tim guessed like most Indie band singers singing was not his forte. Perhaps Seth related to the fact that Tim is a (generally) sober singer, and sobriety is rare in the music industry. He had said complimentary things about James in past interviews, which suggests he admires them, but still, Tim was greatly surprised to be used as his conduit. When Tim read the manuscript he was hooked. Is this a diary, fiction, confession or a mixture of all three? He has no idea but he did find it a good read, way better than most of his lyrics. So he passed it on to a literary agent, who of course wanted him to edit it but he didn't want to betray Seth's trust, so here you have it, more or less intact as the author intended. &nbsp;

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

Constable

Literary

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