Tag: coaching
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Postcards from Europe: Unhelpful assumptions
Day 3: Unhelpful assumptions After a lovely morning in Nuremberg tasting Lebekuchen and Pretzels we travelled onto Vienna. (Another 326 miles). My wonderfully cunning plan to pop to the supermarket conveniently located 2 minutes from our apartment to buy food for dinner was thwarted by the fact that it shut at 5:30pm (just a few…
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Postcards from Europe: The warmth and kindness of strangers
Day 2 – The warmth and kindness of strangers After a lovely morning in Amsterdam we covered another 413 miles by train arriving in Nuremberg in the early evening. Navigating a new place and finding our accommodation wasn’t helped by having to walk through a loud tunnel/underpass with lots of traffic and the fact that…
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Postcards from Europe: And we’re off……
Day 1 – And we’re off First stop Amsterdam. (460 miles so far) We’re travelling light on this trip which feels strangely vulnerable. So many things I typically pack are “just in case,” but when you’re carrying everything to multiple destinations that’s a challenge – what did we really need. I do like to be…
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What I wish I’d known from the start: 5 reflections on overwhelmed and dysregulated children
When I first started teaching, the term “dysregulated” wasn’t even part of our vocabulary. In the early 2000s, we didn’t talk about overwhelmed children, nor did we understand the neuroscience behind intense emotions in the way we do today. Emotional distress wasn’t typically considered a valid reason for challenging behaviour and instead viewed as lack…
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What I wish I’d known from the start: 5 reflections on tricky behaviour
Tricky behaviour is something every parent experiences. It can be one of the most stressful parts of parenting, yet there’s no training given beforehand on how to deal with it. It’s often only in the heat of the moment that you realise that your main “go to” is your own experiences of being parented and…
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5 things to ask yourself when….. you’re concerned about your child’s masking
Sometimes, when we’re asking children to behave in certain ways or fit in we’re asking them to be less them. There are times in life when we all have to be a bit less “us.” To push through uncomfortable feelings for a greater good. Both neurotypical AND neurodivergent people all experience times of having to…