Author: PDA Parenting
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The Second Winner: The BAPS Awards
This week I was lucky enough to go to the BAPS Awards (this stands for Bloody Awesome ParentS) and for those who haven’t got the foggiest these are awards for: “…SEND bloggers to be recognised for their talents, their stories and their families – from the everyday to the exceptional. The BAPS will celebrate SEND bloggers, recognise…
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Being Misunderstood: PDA
A publication has been produced this week by the PDA Society entitled Being Misunderstood: Experiences of the Pathological Demand Avoidance Profile of ASD (click here to download a full copy). One of the figures in the paper really confirmed the consensual feeling we hear so often and that is our needs are not being met:…
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Where are the dark colours?
“Mummy, I want my hair cut short like a boy.” This is a conversation we have often in our PDA house. I have tried to explain (on many occasions) that there should be no gender stereotypes and that boys can also have long hair and equally girls can have short crops. It falls on deaf…
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Twinkle Ball 2018
As many of you will be aware (after the abundance of photos that have been put up of late) – that my sister and I were fortunate enough to attend the first ever Twinkle Ball last month. The ball was hosted by Paddy and Christine McGuinness and it was in aid of the National Autistic Society…
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PDA Child Profile Template
Natalie Menagh, a PDA Parent, Specialist Teacher and Inclusion Manager, has kindly produced a one-page template for a Child Profile of PDA. As a parent she originally wrote one for her child, but following on from the success of this, she generated a template which could be useful to other parents. As Natalie explains in…
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The Wood from the Trees
Sometimes, I just can’t see … the wood from the trees. I know it’s not just ‘a thing’ for parents with a SEN child, because we all get caught up so badly in the moment, we are too emotionally involved to see the bigger picture. My vision definitely hazes more often than not and I’m…
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Happy Pebbles, Happy Ripples
A parent from a support group has shared an experience that will have a lasting effect on her autistic son – it’s a beautiful, anecdotal example about the true kindness of strangers. These were her words: Happy Pebbles, Happy Ripples Today we had two sky engineers who came to our home to sort out…
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The Positive PDA Journey – Parenting a Panda
Mummy, it’s not fair, all I have to look forward to when I grow up is having PDA. Would you swap to have my brain? They were the words my six (nearly seven) year old daughter whispered to me in bed a few days ago. I replied of course I’d love to have her brain,…
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Tomato, Tomato, Ketchup!
A post from last week, but It’s been too chaotic to update. So here goes, better late than never! I talked about the difficulty faced when travelling with my PDA’er (see here) from my latest blogpost. We certainly will need to find extra assistance to accommodate her needs in the future, particularly if we choose to…
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I Can’t
I can’t look at you right now. I can’t let you see how I’m really feeling. I just want to stop still for a moment. We have stepped away from the safe location of home and the barriers are down. We always go here, to this holiday vacation, it’s something we know. It’s never easy,…