Top tips when your child won't take medicine
When you have a child who is poorly it can be very stressful; when you have a child who won't take any medicine, days can become unbeara...
Showing posts with label anxiety. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anxiety. Show all posts
Friday, 31 January 2020
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. ...
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 ...
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...
Wednesday, 10 October 2018
World Mental Health Day: the system affecting SEND families
October 10, 2018
World Mental Health Day
A year ago, I wrote a post for World Mental Health day which was titled ' Playing The Game '. At that point, our autistic daughter ...
Wednesday, 3 October 2018
Autism with demand avoidance or Pathological Demand Avoidance?
October 03, 2018
PDA info
Following on from my last blog post discussing whether Pathological Demand Avoidance is real , I'm going to take a look at another quest...
Tuesday, 6 March 2018
Trampolining and High Emotions
March 06, 2018
trampolining
Today I took Sasha trampolining (you'd never have guessed from the picture). This is a special session during the day for home educ...
Wednesday, 14 June 2017
Wacky Day, Autism and Face Blindness
June 14, 2017
Wacky Day
I'm so proud of our gorgeous youngest girl, who went to school today despite the fact that she really didn't want to. To be honest...
Thursday, 16 July 2015
Challenging behaviour and PDA: Does Tough Love work?
July 16, 2015
PDA
'Tough Love' is a phrase that many parents of children with Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) will have heard before, and those wh...
Friday, 17 October 2014
Who am I? What is PDA? What am I doing here?!
October 17, 2014
statement
Just in case I have any new readers, and also for the benefit of all my lovely old (but young at heart) readers, I thought I should do a lit...
