Parenting Challenges and Milestones
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Coping with Stress in School Meetings: A Parent’s Perspective
I knew this was coming, but this letter arrived this week. This had been rumbling on for some time. That fateful phone call from the EWO (Am I Managing Stress and Anxiety, or Just Surviving?) had prompted me to write an email to her and the school, detailing everything I had done over the last two Continue reading
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How Do You Parent a Child Who Notices Everything?
How much notice of things do you actually take? My son notices everything—and I mean everything. Whether it’s a small change in his surroundings or something new about a person, his attention to detail never misses a beat. He can walk into a room and immediately know if I’ve moved something; it’s almost as though Continue reading
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Am I a fussy eater?
We were playing in the kitchen and my son asked: “Am I a fussy eater?” In that moment I wondered where on earth this had come from and so used my favourite tactic of answering a question with a question and asked why? He was non-committal with his answer and I knew him well enough Continue reading
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This Week and The Many Many Questions of My Child!
I’m writing this while watching the England match….which I might add has completely bored me and so I started to think about what I would write about this week for my blog. Usually my son would ask a question and straight away I knew that question would be what I would write about but this Continue reading
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Parent Led CBT and the Many Many Questions.
This is a slightly different post this week and instead of writing about a question my son has asked me I’m going to write about a question that the lady who is training me on my “Parent Led CBT” course. She is always asking me… “How are you feeling about this week’s tasks?” Many months 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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Can we restart?
It was the Sunday before the Monday going back to school after the Easter holidays and I was trying not to get anxious about what might unfold. My son had a hard time going to school and because he had just had 2 weeks off this back to school was going to be even worse. 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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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
The Questions of My Child 