Hi!
I'm Ben. I was born into a family with a Mum called Sheila Scott, a Dad called Chris Scott, a brother called Terry Scott, and two sisters called Claire Meigh and Stacey Meigh. I was born into a semi-detached house on Irene Avenue, Mill Hill. When I was only a few months old we moved to a bigger house at 26 Carlton Avenue, Mill Hill. Then when I was about four years old we moved to 55 Boon Avenue, Penkhull.
When I was six I met a woman called Dawn Owen and her daughter, Christine. They lived opposite Bath Street Park (which was just around the corner from my house), at number 38. Christine was only about two.
At seven years old my Dad moved out and left me, Terry, Stacey, and Claire with my Mum. Dawn, being a single parent, and my Mum being a single parent, built up a strong friendship and decided to share one house to half costs of living and to help each other looking after children.
My Dad moved into a bedsit on Knight Street, Tunstall, then moved onto a flat on Grove Place with his girlfriend, Angie. We visited them at weekends, then when they moved to number 9 Homer Place, Chell Heath, Angie's son from a previous marriage, Matthew, moved in with them. Me and Terry continued to visit them, and then on the first of February 1997, Angie and my Dad had a little girl together called Samantha Scott. Then, not long after having Samantha, Dad and Ang moved to a bigger house at number 2 Ruston Avenue, Chell Heath, and had another little girl called Emma Marie Scott on the third of April 1998.
Then in September of 1998, me and Terry moved in with Dad, Ang, Sam, Emma, and Matt.Then in 1999 (this year!) on the sixth of August, Ang had yet another baby girl called Laura Toni.
Me and Terry visit my Mum, Dawn, Stacey and Christine (Claire's moved out) every other weekend. When we don't visit my Mum's, Stacey visits my Dad's.
I was an "evil baby" as my Dad tells me. He says that I was born at two minutes past two on Sunday the 6th of September, 1987. I was born in the maternity department in the City General in Stoke, England and weight 7lbs 12.5oz. As a baby I came out very hungry and have lived up to it. I never slept because I was always too hungry. In fact, after I had come out of my Mum, my Dad had to feed me because I wouldn't wait for Mum to be cleaned up!
I was always naughty, and never behaved. My Mum tells me that when I was a toddler, I used to throw my dummy out of the window, and when we had "hooks and eyes" on the doors, I used to pile up quilts and pillows so I could reach the hooks and eyes to unlock the doors!
They had to leave plates of food around the house for when I got hungry.
