Tag: communication

  • 16 Things You Can Gently Insist Should be Happening In School

    I am constantly reading in forums that mums are having to battle with primary schools over basic provisions for our special children. As you may know I am a teacher as well as a mum with a son with ADHD. So I can see what’s going on from both sides. Whilst there are many excellent teachers…

  • 10 Top Tips to Survive The Summer Holidays (Without Losing Your Sanity)

    As the long, long, long, long, long holidays approach some of us mums start to get a little bit anxious. The six week break stretches out before us like a bad dream. School for us is some kind of respite. So without that, life can be a tad stressful. But mums – listen up. We can…

  • Have we lost the ability to communicate?

    “Jaw jaw – not war war” a wonderfully positive statement famously muttered by Winston Churchill in 1954. In these uncertain times it must always  be a credible option to communicate with one another. But what does this communication look like in 2016? Unfortunately I feel the way many communicate today is through a virtual world.…