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…
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…
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…
Who are we and what are we doing?
Who are we and what are we doing? Lets be honest we ask ourselves that on a regular basis along with the questions, “where am I? Are we there yet?…