by Shelley Farnham | Apr 9, 2024 | ADHD Parenting Blogs, Autism
What does Autism Acceptance Week mean to you? To me it’s an opportunity to spread some awareness of Autism – our knowledge and also our personal experience, recognising and celebrating the good, whilst also acknowledging the not so good. Getting this balance is...
by Shelley Farnham | Mar 14, 2024 | ADHD Parenting Blogs, Autism
Autism Parent Support: Navigating the Journey Together Parenting a child with autism is a unique journey that can bring both profound joy and significant challenges. While focusing on the needs of their autistic child, parents often encounter their own set of...
by Shelley Farnham | Mar 14, 2024 | ADHD Parenting Blogs, Anxiety, Autism
Executive Function Support Strategies: A Guide for Parents Executive functions are crucial cognitive skills that help us plan, organise, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully. For children with ADHD and Autism, challenges with these skills are...
by Shelley Farnham | Feb 4, 2024 | ADHD Parenting Blogs
5 steps to nurture emotion regulation and literacy in our family and beyond When we see our child showing anger, sadness and all those other ‘less desirable’ emotions, we are naturally primed to respond to help them, to want to make them feel better and to take away...
by Shelley Farnham | Jan 12, 2024 | ADHD Parenting Blogs
Creating regulation and SPACE for you, to strengthen the relationship with your child Why will focusing on my regulation help my child to be more regulated? This mum was feeling desperate – confused, exhausted and just wanted someone to tell what she...
by Shelley Farnham | Dec 21, 2023 | ADHD, ADHD Parenting Blogs
Why does my ADHD teen delay and avoid doing simple tasks around the house; it’s causing so many arguments in our family! To us, as parents, it can feel like this is defiance and just being ‘difficult’. We see the task as simple to do and when our teen ‘just won’t’,...
