SEND - PARENTING - BALANCE

The system is set to fail neuro diversity!

In todays podcast we look at mainstream schools, local authorities, early help hub practitioners, social working agencies and NHS staff and the restrictions within theses systems that has the outcome of failing our neuro diverse children. Policy, funding, time and training means that at every level our neuro diverse children go without the support and understanding required. The whole system needs an overhaul because just changing one of these aspects won't cut it, we need an overhaul of staff training, policy, available time and funding. With this understanding of the system (and its discriminatory restrictions) we can now empower ourselves in how we advocate for our children's needs to be met ensuring that we gain something a little more than only stress, burnout, anxiety and trauma from a broken mainstream system.

Protect yourself from mainstream trauma!

****Feature length Podcast! Protect yourself from mainstream trauma! This feature length podcast uncovers the three routes to trauma that parents and carers of neurodiverse children can experience multiple times per day. It uncovers a second layer of trauma that we can experience in response to these three routes to trauma. We dive into how we can protect ourselves and our beautiful families from this trauma but how we can also empower ourselves moving forwards. Services mentioned in this podcast can be found at www.send-parenting-balance.com and you can empower yourself today!

Keeping my child safe online

In today's podcast we brainstorm different ways forward, working towards, keeping our children safe online. If our children have Autism/ADHD/PDA this can prove extra challenging and so how can we approach the world of online safety?

EHCP expectations

In today's podcast we discuss whether an EHCP is really an answer to all of our children's support needs when in a mainstream school and how we should manage our own EHCP expectations. Along the way, as always, I will share some personal experiences to highlight areas in which EHCP's are great and areas in which EHCP's may not be so helpful.

Dating with neuro-spicy children.

Come and have some fun with me, what a fun topic. I can't share with you all the right things to do but I can share all my own epic fails that highlight what our expectations should be when also parenting neuro-spicy children. When should I tell my date about the children's needs? What should my expectations be in blending, moving forward?What should my boundaries be, after all they are MY children? There's so much I cant do, I have little time!