This is the site of Dannie's Dilemmas Interactive Books, We are the authors and hope to spread the word as far and wide as we can. I have a fifteen year old child with Aspergers and the books are a day in the life of her.
Friday, 20 April 2012
Free Kindle version of The Shopping Trip
I am so sorry I mean't to get this post out as soon as the promotion started but I got my dates wrong I have placed this book on promotion, free of charge until 21st April I hope you all enjoy reading and would love some feedback if possible.
http://www.amazon.com/Shopping-Trip-Dannies-Dilemmas-ebook/dp/B007HDVF66/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1334930420&sr=1-1
Happy reading
Saturday, 14 April 2012
Dannie's quote of the day
I suppose this subject is one that every parent in the world dreads, Talking to strangers.
I can honestly say this is one of the hardest things I have had to try and explain to Dannie.
A perfect example is when Dannie first started speaking to anyone and everyone, actually she still does. But in this particular incident we were on a bus home and I was starting to tell Dannie how dangerous speaking to strangers would be, I told her what every parent does that they may take you away and that I may never see her again which to me was a frightening enough way to make it very clear that some strangers are dangerous.
Dannie's answer was " what is a stranger" and I replied that it was someone you didn't know. Dannie being Dannie asked "how do I know if I know them" the conversation was getting intense and if I'm honest rather confusing so made it as simple as I could and told her. "if you don't know their name then they are a stranger" simple enough to understand I hear you say, well, this is Dannie so she did no more than to turn round to a lady sitting behind us on the bus and proceeded to ask the lady"what is your name" The lady was quite taken aback by the sudden conversation so the lady asked Dannie "why would you need to know such a thing" and Dannies answer as I'm sure you have all worked out by now was " well if I know your name then your not a stranger anymore.
How do you answer that?
I can honestly say this is one of the hardest things I have had to try and explain to Dannie.
A perfect example is when Dannie first started speaking to anyone and everyone, actually she still does. But in this particular incident we were on a bus home and I was starting to tell Dannie how dangerous speaking to strangers would be, I told her what every parent does that they may take you away and that I may never see her again which to me was a frightening enough way to make it very clear that some strangers are dangerous.
Dannie's answer was " what is a stranger" and I replied that it was someone you didn't know. Dannie being Dannie asked "how do I know if I know them" the conversation was getting intense and if I'm honest rather confusing so made it as simple as I could and told her. "if you don't know their name then they are a stranger" simple enough to understand I hear you say, well, this is Dannie so she did no more than to turn round to a lady sitting behind us on the bus and proceeded to ask the lady"what is your name" The lady was quite taken aback by the sudden conversation so the lady asked Dannie "why would you need to know such a thing" and Dannies answer as I'm sure you have all worked out by now was " well if I know your name then your not a stranger anymore.
How do you answer that?
Thursday, 22 March 2012
Dannie's Fun Movie Night Quiz
ok this one is just for fun.
I need you to imagine for a minute you have arranged for the whole family to enjoy a dvd night together, you are all settled, popcorn at the ready, everyone has drinks and you have all agreed on the dvd to watch. So you have the image in your head? Ok here we go.
Firstly I want you all to raise one hand in the air. Go on no ones watching, just raise your hand, good now put your hand down if you would manage to get through the whole film without telling your A.S child to sit still.
Still up? Ok For those of you who still have there hands up put your hand down if you can get through the film without telling your child to stop shouting.
Looking good, now again put your hand down if you manage to get through the film without your child thinking you must have been on another planet and not watched the film and they tell you what has just happened.
My arm is starting to ache hows yours? Again put your hand down if you manage to get through the film without your child reciting word for word what someone in the film said.
Try and stay with me, Now put your hand down if you can manage to get through the film without your child talking about something that happened ten minutes earlier in the film.
Nearly done I know it aches but we are almost there, Lastly put your hand down if you manage to get through the whole film without your child asking "Did you see that?"
If you still have your hand up well you'll be glad to know thw torment is over you can put your hand down, also wipe the tears of laughter from your eyes I have an important announcement to make, This Is Perfectly Normal For An A.S Child. I hope this makes you feel slightly better knowing YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
I need you to imagine for a minute you have arranged for the whole family to enjoy a dvd night together, you are all settled, popcorn at the ready, everyone has drinks and you have all agreed on the dvd to watch. So you have the image in your head? Ok here we go.
Firstly I want you all to raise one hand in the air. Go on no ones watching, just raise your hand, good now put your hand down if you would manage to get through the whole film without telling your A.S child to sit still.
Still up? Ok For those of you who still have there hands up put your hand down if you can get through the film without telling your child to stop shouting.
Looking good, now again put your hand down if you manage to get through the film without your child thinking you must have been on another planet and not watched the film and they tell you what has just happened.
My arm is starting to ache hows yours? Again put your hand down if you manage to get through the film without your child reciting word for word what someone in the film said.
Try and stay with me, Now put your hand down if you can manage to get through the film without your child talking about something that happened ten minutes earlier in the film.
Nearly done I know it aches but we are almost there, Lastly put your hand down if you manage to get through the whole film without your child asking "Did you see that?"
If you still have your hand up well you'll be glad to know thw torment is over you can put your hand down, also wipe the tears of laughter from your eyes I have an important announcement to make, This Is Perfectly Normal For An A.S Child. I hope this makes you feel slightly better knowing YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
Thursday, 15 March 2012
Dannie's quote of the day
Hi all, before we begin it has been brought to my attention that now Dannie is older it seems her friends have taken an interest in this blog, so Hi Guys nice to see you here.
Now I have to put these posts by Dannie to make sure she doesn't mind her friends knowing.
So here goes, this is a slight extension on the prawns lol.
When Dannie was younger, she was supposed to be in bed but the night in question Dannie couldn't sleep. I was on the phone when she came into the living room, as she just sat next to me I carried on with the phone call, completely forgetting what was on tv. As I turned to look at Dannie to see if she was ok I realised she was watching tv. I said to the person on the phone I think I better turn the tv off Dannie is watching a serial killer on the loose.
Thinking that the murders would disturb Dannie I was just about to turn the tv to a different channel when Dannie started laughing hysterically when asked what she was laughing at she said the man just chopped that woman's head off and it's rolling down the stairs.
Needless to say I gave Dannie a very concerned look and when I asked her if it bothered her at all she just shook her head and kept laughing.
That was until the worse possible thing on this earth could of happened, the head bounced off the stairs hit a fish tank and smashed the tank to bits, this was when Dannie stopped laughing and demanded that the killer should do no more than pick the fish up and take them back to the sea.!!!!
This rant lasted a good hour and she would not go back to sleep until I told her a little white lie and said that the nice police man found the fish and took them home to put in his fish tank.
As we all know when a serial killer is on the loose the first thing the police do is grab a fish. Lol
Now I have to put these posts by Dannie to make sure she doesn't mind her friends knowing.
So here goes, this is a slight extension on the prawns lol.
When Dannie was younger, she was supposed to be in bed but the night in question Dannie couldn't sleep. I was on the phone when she came into the living room, as she just sat next to me I carried on with the phone call, completely forgetting what was on tv. As I turned to look at Dannie to see if she was ok I realised she was watching tv. I said to the person on the phone I think I better turn the tv off Dannie is watching a serial killer on the loose.
Thinking that the murders would disturb Dannie I was just about to turn the tv to a different channel when Dannie started laughing hysterically when asked what she was laughing at she said the man just chopped that woman's head off and it's rolling down the stairs.
Needless to say I gave Dannie a very concerned look and when I asked her if it bothered her at all she just shook her head and kept laughing.
That was until the worse possible thing on this earth could of happened, the head bounced off the stairs hit a fish tank and smashed the tank to bits, this was when Dannie stopped laughing and demanded that the killer should do no more than pick the fish up and take them back to the sea.!!!!
This rant lasted a good hour and she would not go back to sleep until I told her a little white lie and said that the nice police man found the fish and took them home to put in his fish tank.
As we all know when a serial killer is on the loose the first thing the police do is grab a fish. Lol
Saturday, 10 March 2012
Quote Of The Day
Ok this is not supposed to be funny but we all couldn't help laughing even 'Dannie' a rare moment indeed.
We were watching a cook show today and they were cooking prawns. Dannie commented that she only liked pink prawns, we explained to her that prawns only turn pink when you cook them.
A bit like lobsters only turn red after you boil them. If you remember about Dannie, she is animal mad and proceeded to rant and rave about how we all have an insane fascination with killing animals and how cruel it was.
She decided prawns are now off her menu,( not that we eat them that often) So even though I know Dannie's reactions to this I just couldn't help myself, I had to remind her that she would have to give up her favourite crisps.
Dannie looked astounded and asked why? I explained they were prawn cocktail. "yes so" was Dannie's answer so I said again "PRAWN cocktail"
Oh my word if you had been in our house when she found out. She went on a rampage of who in there right mind puts seafood into crisps. It lasted twenty five minutes and I shouldn't laugh but it was hysterical.
Sorry Dannie I shouldn't have laughed but boy you were persuasive.
We were watching a cook show today and they were cooking prawns. Dannie commented that she only liked pink prawns, we explained to her that prawns only turn pink when you cook them.
A bit like lobsters only turn red after you boil them. If you remember about Dannie, she is animal mad and proceeded to rant and rave about how we all have an insane fascination with killing animals and how cruel it was.
She decided prawns are now off her menu,( not that we eat them that often) So even though I know Dannie's reactions to this I just couldn't help myself, I had to remind her that she would have to give up her favourite crisps.
Dannie looked astounded and asked why? I explained they were prawn cocktail. "yes so" was Dannie's answer so I said again "PRAWN cocktail"
Oh my word if you had been in our house when she found out. She went on a rampage of who in there right mind puts seafood into crisps. It lasted twenty five minutes and I shouldn't laugh but it was hysterical.
Sorry Dannie I shouldn't have laughed but boy you were persuasive.
Thursday, 8 March 2012
The right shoes
Would like to update you on how the books are doing. As you know The Shopping Trip is already on sale, now we have book two out called The Right Shoes this will be on sale in the next seven days. It will also be available in Amazon Kindle, Ebook, and Paperback.
Sunday, 26 June 2011
New Volume One
I have finally finished Volume One of Dannie's Dilemmas I have come to an arrangment with my publishers that we can put three of Dannie's Dilemmas into one book to save costs for parents (Yeah) soon to be released will be the first of these volumes where you will find three interactive stories in one book I hope this helps with the cost of the books and I hope to send more people a copy of the ebook for a review of these stories.
Thanks for your patience
Thanks for your patience
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