Neurodivergent Thinking
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Are there actually dead people in the ground?
A tired parent reflects on a child’s blunt question about death, cemeteries, and how children understand dying — with exhaustion, honesty, and dark humour. Continue reading
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Who won the World Cup in 2018?
No blog about my son would be complete without a blog post about football. This is actually the second post I write about his love for football, the first being Who plays for Millwall that used to play for Middlesbrough? All boys love football don’t they, supposedly, that is certainly the stereotype anyway and so Continue reading
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Why are my legs hurting?
My son is so tuned into his body, it really is amazing. I say I think its amazing but actually that’s wrong of me. It must irritate him that he feels everything, more than the average person. Well it does irritate him that he feels things so strongly. For a long time he told me Continue reading
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What’s that black under your eyes?
Our household is a blended family and my son goes between my house and his dad’s house. We have a very good routine. It took us 3 tries to find a routine that fit but we have it and it works extremely well. This is a routine we have come up with ourselves – it Continue reading
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Why cant I have my friends round?
*Disclaimer – this is a long one. And this happened 2 weeks ago. It has been too raw to post about it. My daughter is 14 and has her friends round a lot. They come round straight from school, they have baked here, she has had sleepovers with 1 or sometimes 2 of them and Continue reading
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Time and the Many Many Questions of My Child!
What time is it, is easily my sons favourite question. When he first started asking it he was around 3 years old and I’m not even sure if he knew what it meant, nor what the answer meant. And I’m not sure he even wanted to know the answer. What I do know is that Continue reading
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Ahhhh, What A Day!!
A slightly different post this week, not a question but rather a statement of exasperation!! It had been a day of trauma, hyperactivity and many tears. It was the school holidays after Christmas and my son had gotten a bike for Christmas and of course, rightly so, wanted to go on a bike ride. The Continue reading
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Am I Weird?
Everyone is different, everyone has weird traits but what happens if you know you don’t fit in. We had just been to McDonald’s for dinner. Not nutritious at all I know, but we were on our way to the cinema…..which costs a fortune and needed a low cost meal out beforehand and McDonald’s fit the Continue reading
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Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Child: Are we in real life? Me: Yes, where else would we be? Child: Not in real life? Me: Well we are in real life so you don’t need to worry. Child: But how do you know? Me: Well……. This question came out of the blue while we were sat in a local cafe having Continue reading
The Questions of My Child 