by Dancing Wombat | Apr 26, 2020 | Behaviour and Communication, Blog, Coping Strategies, Family and Community
So, like everywhere else, everyone’s at home. I’m in the lucky camp. Things haven’t changed too much for me, in one way. Although my tech skills are improving dramatically as I work out how to deliver music and drama classes remotely to my special needs primary...
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 | 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 | Apr 16, 2019 | Blog, Coping Strategies, Health and Fitness, Sensory Issues
Life is full of highs that raise you in joyful exultation and lows that oppress you like a dark winter’s morning. And then, then there are the days when everything comes crashing down around your ears in the space of a few, brief words: “I have some bad news…” That...
by Dancing Wombat | Mar 3, 2019 | Blog, Coping Strategies, Family and Community, Life Skills
TIme flies – blink, and it’s nearly the end of term. To be honest, I was dreading the beginning of this school year. Living in hope, but bruised by reality, I wasn’t looking forward to massaging my youngest boy into Year 7, or my oldest boy into Year...
by Dancing Wombat | Dec 18, 2018 | Blog, Coping Strategies, Family and Community
Here we are at the end, the beginning, and more of the same. It’s the end of Term 4, the beginning of high school, and possibly six more years steering our youngest away from the vortex of negativity. From the first day, the final 2018 school term has been a tough gig...