Category: PDA
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Super Shamlal – Book Review
I wanted to write about a fantastic new children’s resource that has been added to the growing collection of books on Neurodiversity by leading editors Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Super Shamlal is a new book by K.I. Al-Ghani – the very successful author behind the visionary books The Panicosaurus and The Red Beast (if you haven’t already looked…
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Saturdays at Noon
I was given the privilege of reading Rachel Marks’ debut novel ‘Saturdays At Noon,’ ahead of it’s exciting release early next spring and it certainly was a book that I couldn’t put down. The premise of the story is about two characters who unwillingly meet on an anger management course and as the blurb states…
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Keeping the child at the centre
To update readers on here, I have copied a post that I have just shared on the PDA Parenting Facebook page, as I’m struggling to find the time to give this blog the care that it needs. As many will know, I am currently disputing all sections of my daughter’s EHCP, and last week I…
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Bloody Awesome Parents
🌟BAPS Awards – who will you be nominating?🌟 So, it’s the last day of nominations today for the BAPS awards – I posted a few weeks ago about what they are on my Facebook page. In brief, for those that missed the announcement, the BAPS are awards to celebrate all of the ‘Bloody Awesome Parents’…
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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…