by Dancing Wombat | Mar 2, 2017 | Behaviour and Communication, Blog
Our lovely paediatric occupational therapist has taught us there are really seven senses (instant test, dear reader. What are they?*). However, I reckon I could add another. Cue spooky music … the eighth sense. Dun, dun duuuuunn… Okay, so in Dancing...
by Dancing Wombat | Nov 10, 2016 | Behaviour and Communication, Blog, Family and Community
Meltdowns. They’re never a good thing. Whether in nuclear reactors or our children, once they start, they can be very hard to stop and the results are often unpredictable. But after Littlest Wombat’s fuse blew recently, triggering a chain reaction which neither his...
by Dancing Wombat | Jun 26, 2016 | Behaviour and Communication, Blog, Coping Strategies, Life Skills
I have been thinking a lot about language over the past couple of weeks. Jo Cox’s murder in England, the Orlando shootings in Florida and our own Eddie McGuire, just “having a joke” – which happened to involve drowning a respected female football commentator as its...
by Dancing Wombat | Apr 18, 2016 | Blog, Identity and Belonging
Do you ever get the feeling that the universe is having a laugh at your expense? Or maybe it’s just giving you a poke in the ribs as a wake-up call? Sometimes events and experiences can line up in a way that you think is surely only coincidence, and yet they feed...
by Dancing Wombat | Jan 8, 2016 | Behaviour and Communication, Blog
Words, words, words. So easily flung around. So carelessly scattered. Like the seeds in the parable of the sower, words can be ignored, listened to briefly and then forgotten, or they can take root and be life-changing (for better or worse). Words come cheap, but they...
