Managing Anxiety in Children With Special Needs: What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why Standard Advice Often Misses the Mark
The therapist had given the family a breathing technique. It was a good breathing technique — the kind that is…
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Raising Children Without Plastic: What Is Realistic, What Is Not, and Where the Impact Actually Is
The photograph made the rounds on social media for months. A family’s weekly shop, laid out on the kitchen table,…
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Raising a Child With Autism: What the First Year After Diagnosis Actually Looks Like
Nobody warns you about the second week. The diagnosis arrives, and there is a period — sometimes hours, sometimes a…
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When the System Fails Your Child: How to Advocate Effectively When Schools and Services Let You Down
The meeting lasted ninety minutes. There were six people on the school’s side of the table. There was one parent,…
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When Your Child With ADHD Is Failing School: What Is Actually Going On and What Parents Can Do That Actually Works
The report card arrives and the numbers do not make sense. This is a child who is clearly intelligent —…
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When Your Child With Special Needs Transitions to Secondary School: What to Prepare, What to Fight For, and What to Let Go
The letter arrived in March. Secondary school placement, confirmed. September start date. A building the child had visited once, briefly,…
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When Your Child With Special Needs Makes a Friend: Why This Moment Is Bigger Than It Looks
A mother told me once about the afternoon her son came home from school and mentioned, in passing, that he…
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When Your Child With Special Needs Reaches Puberty: What Nobody Prepares You For
A mother once told me, with a kind of exhausted honesty I have come to recognise, that nobody had warned…
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The Sibling Nobody Asks About: How Special Needs Parenting Affects Your Other Children
When people ask how the family is doing, they ask about the child with special needs. How is he progressing?…
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The Day the Diagnosis Arrived: How to Process What You’re Feeling Before You Figure Out What to Do
The diagnosis arrived in a small office, delivered by a specialist who then handed you a leaflet, said some things…
