Kenthinksaloud goes on a trip – Guest post on BBW

It is with great excitement that I can announce that kenthinksaloud has been invited to guest post on an awesome blog known as  Black Box Warnings or BBW for short.

The post will appear on the 29th November so pencil that into your diaries and be prepared to hop over to that site on the day. I will, of course, provide a link here at the same time so you are not expected to remember the web address or anything and the post will stay on forever unless the author wants to bin it so don’t worry if you’re actually busy or something. You will be forgiven. This time.

I thought I’d just tell you a little about BBW and its author so you know what to expect.

Le Clown is a Canadian blogger with incredible life-story. His real name of Eric he uses on BBW but he also runs his very famous A Clown on Fire (COF) blog too. As Le Clown he is irreverent, sometimes rude but always funny. Beware, if you go on on COF, you will see colourful language and strong ideas that are not to everyone’s taste. Don’t go there if the F word offends you! Personally, I find him very witty and he is clearly supported by a lot of people who genuinely love him. This means he is, in my book, a nice bloke,  and I support nice blokes because there aren’t enough of them.

What is certain is that Le Clown works bloody hard to produce an excellent site that is just incredible, as a blogger, to see. His graphics for his banners are superb, for instance. Behind the apparent lack of care actually lies a huge amount of work and this has earned him amazing success in a very short space of time. People love that site and for good reason.

But alongside Le Clown‘s humour, the man and father Eric also has a young son with AD(H)D and it was through this connection that I first found Eric. Eric runs a second blog – BBW to discuss the more serious issues of living with his son and dealing with this condition when he has been forced by his ex-wife through the courts to put him on medication he truly believes is not needed at all. It is both heart-breaking and inspirational to see how Eric deals with all this and has kept together an incredibly close and loving family.

Recently, Eric has been invited some of his many and varied blogging fans to guest post on BBW about issues relating to ADHD (see one of my posts on ADHD here), depression and other related issues. The stories make for challenging and moving reading. It is my honour that I have been asked to contribute my own story – and that of my son’s, Thing I – to BBW.

So join us on Black Box Warnings on the 29th, but have a look at the site earlier and read some of the other remarkable stories there. And if you fancy a laugh and joining in with one of the most popular blogs I know of at the moment, go have a look at Clown on Fire too. But I wouldn’t advise showing it to your Gran.

Related articles

• Ten Questions for A Clown on Fire (dailypost.wordpress.com)
• Black Box Warnings – Guest Posts (clownonfire.wordpress.com)
• Interview with a teenager – Part II (kenthinksaloud.wordpress.com)

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