Sensory Processing
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The Questions of My Child: Understanding Communication Challenges
We know my son asks a lot of questions – so much so I have written a whole blog about this. His favourite type of conversation isn’t a typical back-and-forth exchange but more of an interview—he asks, and the other person answers. He much prefers one-on-one conversations, and when more people are in the room, Continue reading
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A Poem – I See You!!!
It’s that time again, time for a poem. These poems (A Poem – He’s Fine!!! and A Poem – I’m Bored!!!) are written from the bottom of my heart and I hope someday to publish them but most of all, most of all I hope that one day way off in the future when my Continue reading
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Why Does Subway Ask So Many Questions?
Who has been to Subway before? Everyone I expect. And if you have you will know they ask a lot of questions, and it’s a production line of sandwich making and question asking. “What bread would you like?”“What size?”“What meat?”“Would you like cheese?”“Would you like it toasting?”“What salad would you like?”“Do you want sauce?”“Are you 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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How many bits of air are there?
We were in the car one day, and going out as a family and I could hear my son breathing quite heavily and he asked…… “How many bits of air are there?” My son loves numbers, he always wants to know how many things there are, how things are measured etc so this question didn’t Continue reading
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What Time is it? Part Two!
The question What Time is it? was the basis of this blog, it was my very first blog post (What Time is it?). From around 3 years old, my son started asking this question over and over again. And not just a couple of times a day—literally hundreds of times. He would ask it three or Continue reading
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What is a daydream?
It had been a long, long day (aren’t most of them nowadays) and I knew I had a long way to go. I had been playing headers with my son where I throw a small ball and he heads it. This was the new version of goalkeepers that he liked to play. He then wanted Continue reading
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Do you think I should go to school?
This week is School Avoidance Week, and the topic couldn’t be more relevant to us right now. Do you think I should go to school is asked a lot in our house from both me to my husband, and from my son to me. Historically, school avoidance, often labeled as “school refusal,” has been misunderstood Continue reading
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Does Science Matter?
It was 8:10 p.m. on a school night, and I was battling to get my son to bed. Every step of our bedtime routine felt like climbing a mountain. He was distracted, frustrated, and constantly delayed. I still clung to the idea of a 7 p.m. bedtime, though he was older now, and the summer Continue reading
The Questions of My Child 