I have good news! Orcs must die is on sale 25% off so if you missed the kickstarter and haven’t been able to track it down at your FLGs it’s a brilliant opportunity to grab a fantastic family board game for the cupboard. You can read about our first impressions. This is far from your standard monopoly offering you … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: March 2017
New Doctor isn’t being well received.
Had our second visit today in order to put together their mental health care plans to continue access to their psychologist at school. The little super hero plonked herself down in her corner…..while we addressed her sister’s needs… Scoring 38 on the depression scale they used, she has been struggling lately in spite of her … Continue reading
Food / Geekery / History / Mentalhealth / Toolbox
The down hill slide
Increasingly in recent weeks there has been less bounce to her step. Even extending to something more akin to a slow commando crawl…. I suspect we are for the first time seeing her experience a depressive episode without the waters muddied by agitation and aggression. This is thanks to her meds that the waters are … Continue reading
How to do anything…
1. Don’t expect to be rescued 2. Toolboxes 3. No one is going to teach you how, so observe, learn, and apply. 4. The world may not be fair but that doesn’t mean you can’t be. End of the day it is you looking in the mirror and that’s where you have to measure up. … Continue reading
No such thing as a Bad Kid
You may be stressed and exhausted at times by the effort of parenting. But I can tell you with absolute certainty that there is no such thing as a bad child. On Friday my daughter may have been “exited” from her class and sent to detention for the first time ever. Considering she lasted til … Continue reading
Plodding along
The eldest scored her first detention for telling her math teacher to piss off. And told me about it while sitting next to her youngest sister in the car with her hooting and cheering in response. *sigh* she definitely doesn’t need encouragement. She got home from camp today barely a few words before running off … Continue reading
PartnerSPEAK
I came across the link in my newsfeed, and given our history as I have occasionally brushed on here I went to check it out. I went looking for PartnerSPEAK hopeful that I would find a vibrant supportive community that was more practical than vitriol, I thought perhaps I could help them out give them … Continue reading
History / Mentalhealth / News / Toolbox
Family Court, Child Protection, what do they have to do with protecting YOUR children?
Absolutely Nothing in the first instance of discovery of abuse and that is the God awful truth. Simply don’t take it there until investigations have completed, it isn’t what they deal with. Few if any agencies will actually inform parents of this fact, it is assumed by all that parents already know that it is … Continue reading
The importance of a good therapeutic relationship
Been chatting via SMS with one of the little super heros psychologists. I can see the clock, she is in her own time. Giving each other a small pat on the back, she has become a good friend, as we make our way further towards discharge and it looks more and more like we have … Continue reading
The Little Super Hero 
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