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Misadventure: Trapped in the Car Park
This happened back when there was still our favourite soft play. It was a Thursday. Afterwards, we went to the library and had a happy two hours looking at books. Both babies chose some nice books (okay, the two-month-old didn’t really choose her own books but she smiled at a couple so I borrowed them […]
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Coping with toddler tantrums with a nonverbal or speech delayed toddler
It is super frustrating that a lot of the advice about toddler tantrums assumes that they have some kind of magical adult vocabulary to understand concepts like “big emotions” or “why”. I don’t have a toddler like that. When mine turned two we had a lovely month of “I thought the twos were supposed to […]
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Misadventure: Fairies
This is a misadventure about magic, and the watershed between knowing magic is real, as children do, and knowing it isn’t. Both parties KNOW this, and yet… doesn’t that suggest that knowledge depends on your point of view? When I was 8, I moved schools from St Giles RC to The Valley County Primary in […]
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Misadventure: A Very Louis Theroux Dinner in America
While I was in America, I had a bit of downtime between a couple of book conferences so I decided to head to a lovely beach town in Virginia. I booked ten days at a beachfront hotel which was delightful but left me with a lot of free time. I was working hard on marketing, […]
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Misadventure: Brook jumping
When I was six, seven and eight, Saturdays were always housework. Usually, that meant spending all morning cleaning and tidying. There was dusting my stepdad’s collection of beer taps (what? Your house wasn’t full of these?) and my mum’s… random collection of shite like an owl dressed to play cricket draped with random offcuts of […]
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Newsletter Marketing for Authors is here!
Here’s what you said: “How do I start an author newsletter?” “How do I find my ideal readers?” “How do I use a newsletter to get my books out there?” This course answers all of these and more. Even better, its RRP is $99 but I’ve created a special coupon for you. You can get […]
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Misadventure: The Sofa Shop
When I was 8 months pregnant, I had just moved from China to Northern Ireland. I was by myself and after five fraught weeks had finally signed a lease and got some keys to a house. Unfurnished. Quite a lot of things for sale online have secret smallprint that you don’t spot until you try […]
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Ten ways to engage an ADHD child with homeschooling
How on Earth do you get a child with ADHD to do their schoolwork? Is homeschooling a recipe for disaster when ADHD is involved? This article is focused on actionable strategies to help get ADHD students engaged with homeschooling. The big superpower of having ADHD is hyperfocus. It’s also our biggest weakness. See, attention deficit […]
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New ASD research changes everything
TW: neurodiversity, swearing, other people’s ablism making me mad A researcher did brain scans and found out: “…brain scans could not distinguish children who had been diagnosed with ASD from those who had been diagnosed with ADHD or OCD.” (i.e. neurodiversity is visible on scans as “neurodiversity” as a whole) I certainly know I have […]
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Misadventure: I fell off a cliff
If you’re from Cheadle, you’ll probably know about Hawksmoor. If you’re not from Cheadle, you won’t. If you take the Oakamoor road, just after the turn-off signposted to Rocester, Hawksmoor begins with the funny parking area in front of a big cliff with a wood around and above it. It’s where the fields end and […]
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