Riley’s start to home education
Our first week of home education began with not being able to leave the house as I was looking after Samantha who was still self isolating, so to be honest…
Learning to say yes
Back when we first started to have behavioural difficulties with Samantha, I was gifted a book ‘Learning to say no!’, strangely this was never a problem contrary to belief. My…
We took the plunge
21/06/2021 So after a weekend of struggles with Riley panicking that he was going back to school last night, we took the plunge and I officially sent the deregistration letter…
Another isolation, another practice run
16th June 2021 So we have had an unexpected chance to practice home educating before the end of the school year again. Off the kids went to school on Wednesday…
My biggest home ed fear
Monday 3rd may 2021 My biggest fear and the reason I have always avoided home education up to this point is, am I going to be enough for them? And…
A life changing decision
Friday 30th April 2021 All of these views are the views of my own and my family's. We do not expect them to reflect those of all of our readers.…
School drama: Ear Defenders
Tuesday 27th April 2021 Every week brings a new drama at school, this week it is all over ear defenders. Yep you read that right, frigging ear defenders. Riley has…
School refusal and mental health
Monday 26th April 2021 This is not unchartered territory for us. We went through 2 years of forcing Samantha to school. We followed the advice of the ‘professionals’. We ignored…
Family update highs and lows
1st May 2021 So a fair bit has happened since February. We are still thinking that 2021 is a sucky year but we don’t think it is going to suck…
Coming down from a hard week
February 2021 It is hard enough in a neurotypical world to reset after a hard week, it is near impossible when living in an autistic world. Our autistic children hold…