Author: PDA Parenting
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The Truce
Dear Local Authority, I am writing this letter with the warmest intentions, not to alarm or to shock you, but to offer my sincerest offerings of peace in order for us to move away from being in no man’s land. You see, I wonder if there could ever be a future when you work with…
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The child in need
Child in need – a definition: “To safeguard and promote the welfare of children within their area who are in need; and, so far as is reasonably consistent with that duty, to promote the upbringing of such children by their families, by providing a range and level of services appropriate to those children’s needs.” http://www.childlawadvice.org.uk…
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I want to bring my pet to school
Yesterday we had a visit in the home from an educational psychologist and the communication/autism advisory teacher. To briefly recap, my daughter has been off school since March, finding the sanctuary of home the only place she can cope with, despite craving many aspects of the outside world. Well our visitors managed to enter the…
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Plan C
At the moment it really feels like we are running out of options. When I decided to have kids the only intuition I had was to follow the parenting style I had been shown by my parents (which had worked out pretty successfully for them when raising their own brood). So when this style didn’t…
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The Born Negotiator
”Don’t forget, I know how to embarrass you,” she says. I mean, that’s not typical for an eight year old child to think about or verbalise to their parent, even less imaginable if you were to consider that the child in question is autistic. In a house with a child who has Pathological Demand Avoidance…
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To blog or not blog – that is the question?
When I first started writing posts I pretty much did it for a release because my life felt so tough. I felt so disconnected from everyone that I needed to find a tribe who could understand and help me with what I was going through. Since then, I have learnt how to format posts, understand…
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The Inhospitable World
For many parents on holiday, this picture would be an average photo they would take of their child playing on the beach. For me, it is loaded with so much emotion, that you simply wouldn’t see. Having a child with autism can be more challenging when trying to do typical family outings – for many…
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Top tips for parents before a SEND or EHCP tribunal
The clock is ticking and you have a time limit to get your SEND tribunal appeal lodged before your chance expires. Often, for parents like me, we have a tendency to rush through and send it before we have had enough time to put forwards our grounds for appeal with the detail it requires. But…
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SEND National Crisis
As many will know already, tomorrow there will be a series of organised marches around the country, designed to peacefully protest about the current SEND national crisis. Thursday 30th of May has been marked on the calendar for many individuals, families and professionals affected by the continuous cuts and lack of resources available to support children,…
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PDA Day 2019
Yesterday, for those who may not have seen already from the abundance of social media posts, that it was something we have named PDA Day. The 15th of May was used to mark PDA awareness all over the world and it was something that we used to celebrate as a family. I would have liked…