Have to explain the brain to kids so they understand their feelings. We all have off days, when we feel like we can’t do anything right. For kids, who’s life experience and therefore achievements, are limited, those days can happen more often. Add in learning difficulties and you know […]
‘It’s important not to let anyone label you.’ I’m sitting in the audience at a kids show recently (Operation Ouch, anyone with kids will know what I mean. Who doesn’t love Dr Chris and Dr Xand?!) and heard a story about Dr Xand’s poor school reports and multiple detentions, and […]
It’s so easy for those who evaluate us and our kids (like teachers, bosses, specialist staff) to focus on what needs ‘fixing’. There is a narrow definition of normal these days. But, there’s also a whole movement focusing on what you are great at, or your strengths. There’s some psychologists […]
