Top tips for hospital - autism
A few years ago I wrote some posts about the time when our autistic girl suddenly ended up in hospital . She had been a little off colour w...
Showing posts with label PDA Life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PDA Life. Show all posts
Thursday, 26 March 2020
Sunday, 22 March 2020
Frustration and high anxiety on special days
March 22, 2020
PDA Life
It's Mother's Day today and although I got two cards, because I have two daughters, both cards were actually signed by just one of m...
Tuesday, 25 February 2020
MAD Blog Awards 2020.... Finalist!
February 25, 2020
Tots 100
I'm so chuffed to have made it into the finalist list for the MAD Blog Awards and want to say a huge thank you to everyone who nominate...
Monday, 24 February 2020
BAPS Awards 2020... finalist!
February 24, 2020
PDA Life
Over the last ten years, I've shared a lot of our family's experiences and my thoughts on autism and Pathological Demand Avoidance ...
Friday, 24 January 2020
Circle of Friends
January 24, 2020
Splatoon
When our daughter moved up to Junior stage of her mainstream school (in the UK this covers age 7-11), the local autism advisory service sugg...
Friday, 10 January 2020
Ten years of blogging; what next?
January 10, 2020
ten years
Ten years ago today, I started writing this blog. Ten years ago today, our younger daughter was diagnosed with autism ( ASD - Autism Spectru...
Wednesday, 8 January 2020
Art and social with Potential Kids
January 08, 2020
social group
You know how sometimes you wish you could kiss someone, but you know it’s totally inappropriate?* That was how I felt yesterday, as Sasha ...
Thursday, 5 December 2019
Why being out of school is no holiday...
December 05, 2019
school refusal
Yesterday, a comment popped into my Instagram direct message inbox, referring to the fact that I'd taken our younger daughter ice skatin...
Tuesday, 12 November 2019
BAPS Blogging Awards 2020 for SEND parents
November 12, 2019
SEND
Last year I was thrilled to be able to attend the BAPS Blogging Awards for the first time. BAPS actually stands for Bloody Awesome Parents ...
Wednesday, 6 November 2019
When a day out is not what it seems
November 06, 2019
social
Since May this year, there have been far fewer posts published on this blog overall than over the previous year. I've been tending to wr...
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
Rewards and Consequences with PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance)
October 30, 2019
rules
The question about whether rewards and consequences work with children who have the Pathological Demand Avoidance profile of autism is one ...
Thursday, 10 October 2019
Mental Health: #ChooseKind
October 10, 2019
World Mental Health Day
Today I started to write a short post about World Mental Health Day for sharing on social media, but then I realised I just couldn't. ...
Monday, 9 September 2019
So that was Summer... Part 1
September 09, 2019
PDA Life
Last year I wrote a day by day account of our summer holidays on my Facebook page and spread them over two posts on my blog, called Summer H...
Friday, 6 September 2019
Not Back To School..... Not Fine In School.
September 06, 2019
SEND
So here’s my Back To School front door photo. I shared this a couple of days ago on my Facebook page and got a huge response from lots of ...
Saturday, 17 August 2019
Blackpool Sandcastle Waterpark: Leading the way in disabled access (including autism)
August 17, 2019
waterpark
We visited the Sandcastle Waterpark in Blackpool earlier this year and were extremely impressed with their attitude towards adults and chil...
Sunday, 21 July 2019
Everyday challenges with PDA
July 21, 2019
tooth brushing
Last week, I posted this picture of me on my blog Facebook page . It was a very spur of the moment thing which seemed to grab a lot of atten...
Tuesday, 9 July 2019
The challenges of building friendships
July 09, 2019
trampolining
Today was Trampoline Tuesday and so we headed back to the session for home educated children which we were at last week (and a year ago, wh...
Wednesday, 3 July 2019
Can't, not Won't. Not school refusal.
July 03, 2019
school refusal
The events of this morning have jolted me into writing this post, because I felt they were good examples of how our life with PDA ( Patholog...
Sunday, 9 June 2019
When life isn't easy
June 09, 2019
skating
Back at the beginning of this year, Sasha decided she would like to take up roller skating as a hobby. This came off the back of some ice s...
Monday, 6 May 2019
Easter holiday fun
May 06, 2019
St.Annes
Lately I've been finding it difficult to summon much motivation for blogging. There's so much I'd like to say and write about, b...
