by Dancing Wombat | Mar 29, 2020 | Blog, Coping Strategies, Family and Community
Shopping the other day for extra food containers, I overheard a lady complain about all the government announcements and changing rules around COVID 19. “I wish they’d stop keep coming out with new information,” she fretted. “Why don’t they just stick with one thing...
by Dancing Wombat | Feb 17, 2020 | Blog, Health and Fitness
Sitting is the new smoking, a physio told me recently. Forget 40 being the new 30! Or black being the new – um – black. I see a lot of overweight special needs people. Have you noticed it? Not easy admitting it out loud, is it? But now that obesity has become an...
by Dancing Wombat | Oct 14, 2019 | Achievements, Blog, Coping Strategies, Family and Community, Life Skills
The other day I dropped my oldest boy back to school after a spare period. Or rather, he dropped himself off. We used the brief opportunity for him to practise his driving a little more. He’s growing up. It doesn’t seem that long ago that I was walking behind him as...
by Dancing Wombat | Aug 28, 2019 | Blog, Family and Community, Identity and Belonging, Life Skills
Every village needs a café! I’ve been exploring how we can support young people with special needs find their “village” – the people and “stuff” around us who hold us up, nurture us and sustain us in endless, connected small ways....
by Dancing Wombat | Jul 16, 2019 | Behaviour and Communication, Blog, Life Skills
All I wanted was a passport-sized photo for my daughter. The sort that you need on a travel concession card, that you can get in under two minutes at a photo booth. Simple…in theory. A photo booth photo would have been fine for my boys, but not my daughter. This...
