Category: Parenting
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Free Autism Awareness Conference in Nuneaton: Register Now!
A workshop at the Together with Autism Conference in Nuneaton next week invites local residents to engage with talks and activities on autism, organized by Act for Autism. The free event offers workshops, information stalls, and refreshments. Participants can choose sessions, including one focused on supporting children with extreme anxiety.
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PDA Parenting Webinar
We are pleased to announce details of the first (which will be the start hopefully) of a series of webinars themed around PDA Parenting. In this first session we will discuss what Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) is and how it is an autistic profile which is rarely known or understood.
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Giveaway!
It’s GIVEAWAY time!!!!! Our new novel launched just over a week ago and we are pleased to announce that we are running a free giveaway this weekend for our followers on Facebook and Instagram!
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Black Rainbow – Book Launch
It’s been such a long wait but we can finally announce our publication date for Black Rainbow!
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Being the Goldfish
🌟Explaining the anxiety block🌟 Last week I had prepared for a weekend away with my children and some of our closest friends. It was going to be fun and full of treats. And yet still my middle child refused to go. At first it started with a no, eventually leading to a week of crying,…
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Tactical Play
Five years into our journey with the failing SEND system and I would have thought things would have improved by now. Scarily so, I feel even more victimised by those working in it, despite my developed knowledge on how it operates. In 2016, I entered it naively, apologetically and ready to be made a scapegoat…
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15 ways Adopt Me in Roblox can help teach kids new skills
This year my children, like many others across the globe, have become obsessed with the game Adopt Me. It’s a server that features on the Roblox game, as well as others that are becoming very popular such as Piggy, MeepCity or Tower of Hell. I thought it might be useful to write a post about…
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To infinity and beyond: the power of film for children
Films, for many of us, have become part of everyday living. Movies infiltrate our popular culture by the quotes we use, the soundplays we listen to and even the understanding we have built on stories through history. You could say most of our education and knowledge comes from what we have watched on screen. So…
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The System
The system is broken. Full bloody stop. We can fight amongst ourselves and try our best to get those individulal wins, but we are just lone warriors – trying to wage our own version of a resistance. It just is one, big losing battle. A war with pocketfuls of parents, here and there, who are made…
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Rewrite the Stars
It’s not impossible. But it feels impossible. Tell me that it’s possible? Ok, so I may have watched The Greatest Showman a little too much!! But it gives me the start to a subject I want to write about and that is thinking about success. So a distinct attribute that seems common in the profile…