school refusal
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Why is School Avoidance back? When the PDA Burnout Cycle starts again on Mother’s Day
This one is personal. It started with Mother’s Day. My son came home from football and I knew — before the day was out — that something had shifted. He didn’t go to school the next day. Or the day after. In this week’s post I’m writing about the PDA burnout cycle — why our… Continue reading
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Can I go back to school after dinner?
After almost a year of school refusal, the reduced timetable felt like our last hope…we started a reduced timetable at school w/c 17th March (so 4 weeks ago). The plan was for my son to do half days at school where I picked him up at 12. I wasn’t sure whether this would help or… 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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What happens after you have finished school?
It was a school morning and on the whole, our school mornings went terrible thanks to school avoidance. My son really struggles with going to school, he cries, he shouts, he screams.ts more than just not wanting to go to school. This is school avoidance, and it’s much more complex and harder to solve than… Continue reading