Ali
Ali works in public participation and facilitation, specialising in environmental issues. She’s a single mum with one son, who is adopted.
Ali Reading to her son on the sofa.
Ali at her kitchen counter where she attends her online meetings.
“He didn’t get on with Joe Wicks. So I tried, I did Joe Wicks every morning at nine o’clock because I’d said, “all of our friends are doing this”, you know. And, his [wider] family were doing it as well, and that matters. But no he just couldn’t. It wasn’t interesting enough. But he did do the stories, and I think I might do those again.
Although now he’s at school he is getting to run around, so maybe all that’s not so important, and maybe we can start to have school time being school and home, even though school is three days, and home being slightly more safe and fun.
So yeah his stories, I know that stories work better. I think possibly because he’s a lone child, he is particularly good at stories. Stories, stories, stories all the time. Flying things, monsters, you know, there’ll be a story about how everything got there, you know?”