by Dancing Wombat | Jul 26, 2018 | Achievements, Blog, Family and Community, Identity and Belonging, Sensory Issues
Dear Village Roadshow Theme Parks, I’m guessing from the week my family just spent visiting your Gold Coast Theme Parks that you don’t see a lot of special needs (“SN”) families like us. Your limited special needs services, autism insensitivity, contradictory...
by Dancing Wombat | Jun 16, 2018 | Blog, Family and Community, Identity and Belonging, Life Skills, Socialisation
After the ball is over After the ball is over After the break of dawn After the dancer’s leaving After the stars are gone Many a heart is aching If you could read them all… Since my daughter had her Presentation Ball, two years have already flown past....
by Dancing Wombat | Apr 29, 2018 | Blog, Coping Strategies, Family and Community
The case for a cat My youngest has been at me for a year to get a cat. That’s a year for him to build up a rock-solid case with someone who’s dead set against cats for pets. I don’t hate cats. But since here in Australia up to 23 million feral cats...
by Dancing Wombat | Nov 13, 2017 | Achievements, Behaviour and Communication, Blog, Coping Strategies, Family and Community
Living with teens is, to my mind, like an uncertain trek through the ‘Stans’ of the ancient Silk Route – Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and so on. We often view the ‘Stans’ as metaphors for uncertainty,...
by Dancing Wombat | Oct 9, 2017 | Blog, Family and Community, Identity and Belonging
Questions of identity Identity. Who we are. Some of us probably don’t even think about it. For others, thoughts about sexuality, gender, ethnic, religious, even national identity are a constant companion. I identify myself as Australian, Christian, a wife, mother,...
by Dancing Wombat | Sep 7, 2017 | Blog, Coping Strategies, Family and Community
Well, I got it all smashed up last night. No, not from hitting a glass ceiling or doing fancy things with avocados. The passenger mirror on our family van. And I did it with an audience – not just two of my boys in the back of the car, but the six or so workmen in the...
