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Month: August 2016

25thAugust201631st March 2017
77

The Lions in the Living Room

Biggest by a river

When was the last time that you felt truly overwhelmed by an emotion? Fear? Sorrow? Anger? Confusion? When was the last time you felt like there was honestly no one to turn to, no way to make it better, no path back to a place where life made sense and the world kept turning? For… Read More

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16thAugust20167th July 2017
5

A rose by any other name…

Girl looks out at view from Malvern hills by Someone's Mum

Littlest won’t call me mummy. Her words came around the right time. The first one was Daddy – similar to her brother, though, in his case, Daddy came a close second to ‘car’. All the things with wheels followed shortly after. The weeks have passed and her vocabulary has grown. ‘Shoes’ was mastered early on… Read More

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8thAugust201629th April 2018
44

The Meaning of a Meltdown

The meaning of a meltdown feature

To most parents, the words tantrum and meltdown are interchangeable – a way to describe a frustrated and uncontrollable child – the name for those moments when strangers stare and you wish you could shrink into yourself. Every parent knows them. To the parents of autistic children, and parents of children with sensory processing issues,… Read More

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I am Danielle and I am an ex-English teacher living on the border between Gloucestershire and Worcestershire. I have two children, a boy, 9, who is on the autistic spectrum, and a daughter, 7… read more

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