I’m Erica, in in my mid to late forties (depending on how I’m feeling) and I started The Incidental Parent in 2016 years ago as an anti-parenting blog. Not that I’m anti parenting but I found that most parenting blogs at the time didn’t resonate with me, they were all bit too perfect. I know now that most of that is nonsense and deep down most of us face the same struggles every day, it’s just we don’t want to post it on social media, although that has changed in recent years.
We are a family of four Big L, Little L, Monsieur Incidental (my partner and their dad) plus Vader, our ex racing greyhound. When I started the blog Big L was 7 and Little L was 2, they are now 13 and 8 respectively and a lot has changed. We now know Little L is autistic, has ADHD and is Dyspraxic and I was diagnosed with ADHD a couple of years ago too. It makes life interesting!
Ours lives has changed dramatically over the last eight years, we have changed and our parenting style has evolved and so too has my blog. I write less about my kids and the school run and more about me, being diagnosed with ADHD in my forties, having Crohn’s disease and parenting a neurodiverse child.
I try to cover all aspects of family life from school, work, holidays, travel and so on. All of which are “different” due to the various neurodiversity going on in our household.
