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Parenting a PDA child has meant questioning so much of what I thought parenting was supposed to look like. I lower demands. I let things go that other parents might insist on. I think about how we phrase things, how much pressure I’m adding an
The constant scanning, anticipating, adapting, and listening take far more energy than they look like they should. And that's before you add in everything else: work, house stuff, relationships, life admin and all the usual parenting stuff. No wond
There is something I've noticed whenever we talk about ‘school avoidance’. We rightly talk about the child. What's making school feel impossible? What do they need? What needs to change? But there's another person whose life can change
My son is eight years old and has never been to school. That's a very simple sentence for something that has taken up an enormous part of our lives. We didn't decide school wasn't for him and walk away. We fought for a specialist school place. We
Cheerleader shoutout time 📣 Every month, I’m cheering on a few people whose work, words or experiences have helped me, taught me something or simply made me feel a little less alone. Basically, people I’m really glad I found, and who I
You know when you've been desperate for just a few minutes where nobody actively needs anything from you, and then you finally get them, pick up your phone without really thinking, and suddenly they’re gone? I do this ALL the time. And to be
Have you ever been told to “just take some deep breaths” when you’re completely overwhelmed… and thought, yeah, that’s not touching this 😅 When you’re really stressed, burnt out or overloaded, anything that requ