sensory overload
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How Can I Support My Child Across Two Homes?
Throughout this blog, I’ve avoided touching on a particular subject….probably because I didn’t want it to cloud anyone’s judgment about my thoughts on my son. But now feels like the right time to discuss it, for two key reasons. First, because it’s a serious concern in my eyes, and second, because I honestly don’t know 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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Who existed school?
We were sat in the car having just parked up for the second day of school this week. This morning had been a difficult one, a very difficult one and I knew my son was really feeling it. And my son looked at me said he felt sick and he didn’t want to go to Continue reading
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Can I sleep at Grandma’s?
All children sleep at their grandparents at some point, right? Well not my son, not really. My daughter slept at my mams, her Grandma’s a lot. And she loved it. Absolutely loved it. She had her own bedroom there and it was home from home really. The same never really happened for my son. As Continue reading
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Are you 41 now?
It was my birthday on Wednesday and at 6.30am my son woke up and the first thing he said was happy birthday. Then he asked… “Are you 41 now?” And I was indeed 41. He said he had been thinking about it all night. We had a normal morning and he went to school. This 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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Happy New Year – Are we in 2023 or 2024?
Well….Happy New Year! The start of a new year, a fresh start, the beginning of time isn’t it. It’s a time for reflection, to look back on over the last year and a time for plan making, thinking about what you want to achieve in the coming year. For us though it was a minefield Continue reading
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Why is life so hard?
There has been on occasion as a grown up, days when I have asked myself the same question, although usually in my head!!! And funnily enough most recently I ask myself that question on a Monday. And today was indeed a Monday when my son asked me the same question. Let me set the scene Continue reading
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Why do you ask so many questions?
Ironic huh. This is actually what my son asked me one day as we were getting in the car to set off for school. I literally stopped in my tracks as I couldn’t believe my ears. Here I was writing about the questions he asked me and he thought I asked him a lot of Continue reading
The Questions of My Child 