How Not to Screw Up Your Kids13 Huhti 2025

Bucket Emptying: How Do We Have Conversations About Disability?

“Disability is not an us and them conversation, and it’s not a pity conversation. It’s about teaching kids compassion and an openness to collaboration”

These are the words of today’s guest Cathy Reay, a disabled writer and journalist, and mum of two (plus a very cheeky cat!). She also works in educational publishing. How To Be Disabled and Proud (or at least kinda sorta okay with it...) is her first children’s book, and on this week’s bucket emptying episode we are discussing how to have conversations with children about disability.

Spoiler alert: we’re all accommodating disability every day, we just don’t realise it, so this may not be as challenging as you think!

So find a comfy seat, pour yourself a cuppa and enjoy the conversation…

Connect with Cathy:

Website: https://www.cathyreay.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cathyreaywrites/

X: https://x.com/cathyreaywrites?lang=en

How To Be Disabled And Proud: How To Be Disabled and Proud: (or at least kinda sorta okay with it...): Amazon.co.uk: Reay, Cathy: 9780241676967: Books

Highlights from this episode:

00:53 -The vast spectrum of disability

04:04 - Disabled people have different skills, not lesser ones

06:03 - We’re not there to make you feel better

10:28 - It’s not a big deal… do don’t make it one

Additional resources:

The Lost Boys Report from the Centre for Social Justice: https://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/library/lost-boys

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