Mencap and later as a director of the Council for Disabled Children], my husband was head of a division in Brussels and commuted there from our house in Highgate, and we also had two younger children, Christopher and Emma.
They’re now both in their 50s and I recently asked them if it had affected their lives that Simon took such a huge amount of my time.
They said, ‘Yes, but it should have done because Simon needed you more.’ It’s the age-old thing of caring: balancing everyone’s care needs.From the age of eight Simon was a weekly boarder at a residential school in Surrey where he was very, very happy.
I was also lucky and had a succession of wonderful au pairs, as I accepted that if I wanted to work, there had to be support.
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