High School friendships are hard for everyone High school reunion. Is there another event in your adult life that induces such a polarising response? For some, High School was the peak of popularity and connection, the beginning of lifelong friendships. For others,...
Being a productive team requires each team member to be supported to contribute to the best of their ability. As we make leaps and bounds regarding working from home, sit/stand desks, and other great one size fits all approaches, let us remember that true equity comes...
Diagnosis or not, Women with ADHD symptoms can take steps to manage their symptoms and support is available.
The key is early and ongoing communication Starting High School is a big change for all students. For our neurodiverse children, this change can be magnified and have a much greater, often negative, impact. Anxiety, sensory...
For neurodiverse children dependant on routine for security, returning to Face to Face learning may feel like a new routine, which may undermine their sense of security and comfort. Even those excited to return to school may find themselves quickly overwhelmed, just...
At Social Living Solutions, we are all about helping your child meet his or her potential. Coming up over the next few months is a series of helpful blogs centred around life skills that will help your child to flourish. Today I am going to talk about the essential...
Many of you will be becoming increasingly aware of how to best assist your child to transition from Year 6 into Year 7 and the different challenges associated with this major transition time. Parents often get in contact with me at this stage of their child’s lives to...
Assisting special needs children to become less anxious and more focused through Mindfulness meditation practice. Mindfulness meditation calms and trains the mind to stay in the moment. This is of great benefit to our ASD, ADHD, ADD children and others who suffer from...
Empowerment. This is a word that is used a lot. In my work as a Global Ambassador for Taryn Brumfitt's "Body Image Movement", we constantly talk about empowering girls and women to love and embrace their bodies. When I look at the parallels of this movement and trying...
I ended my last blog with: "As a society we care too much about other people's ideas of what is and what is not appropriate, rather than the effect our actions and behaviour will have on the ones we should love and support the most." For all my life I have been a...