Comparing your autistic child
If there’s one thing so many of us do in our lives, it’s compare ourselves. I mean, we do it so much that I think most of us aren’t even aware of it sometimes, myself included. Think about it for a second… We compare our bodies, our cooking, our appearance, our work, our clothes,…
Autism Bed Time Routines (video)
Here is a video I made this week all about managing your child’s bed time routine. I’ve spoken to and worked with a lot of parents and carers who really struggle with putting their children to bed at night, and/ or getting their children to stay asleep, without either getting up or disrupting the…
Christmas cards!
This year I’ve realised how silly it is of me to walk into Paperchase each year and buy adorable, but nevertheless hugely expensive Christmas cards for my friends and family. Nothing against Paperchase. I truly love the place, but I wanted to do something a little different this year… I stumbled across The National Autistic…
Getting enough sleep at night
I’ve worked with quite a few parents are carers with autistic children now who struggle with bed time routines with their children. It’s usually either a struggle to get their child to bed at night at reasonable time or making sure they stay asleep through the night. And for some it may even be both.…
Feeling sick and tired
“I’ve never seen any life transformation that didn’t begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.” Elizabeth Gilbert ^^ If you didn’t know, Elizabeth Gilbert is the best selling author of “Eat, Pray, Love” And she really has hit the nail on the head in this quote. There are so…
Oprah Winfrey and autism
You may not have watched Orpah’s talk show, seen any over her movies or read her books but there’s no denying that Oprah Winfrey is a household name. And like most people with her level of success, that took some hard work. The thing is, Oprah didn’t let that hard work put her off her…
My fiery deputy head mistress
Years ago I was sat in a staff meeting at a school which was being led by the deputy head. It was a Thursday afternoon and the meeting was around an hour long, covering healthy and safety/ safeguarding. As you can imagine most of us were not exactly over the moon at the idea of…
How To Include Your Autistic Child In Activities Both At School And Home
Here is a video I recently made all about inclusion. In this video I explain exactly how parents and carers can work on including their child more in activities, games and conversations both at home and school. Working on inclusion can help children on the spectrum form friendships with others at school and develop…
Unconscious choices we make as parents
“Happy 2nd Birthday… Please don’t get any bigger now!” “My baby has gotten so big :(” “I wish they could stay this age forever.” “Ok, stop getting older now!” These are all things I hear/ read parents say about their children on a regular basis. And although many of them are just joking, there is…
Giving birth and parenting autistic children
I’m reading a great book at the moment on birth preparation and everyday I’m having one of those lightbulb moments… You know the ones where something suddenly fits and makes perfect sense to you. A lot of the book talks about instinctive birthing… handing things over to your body to do what needs to be…
