Learn a new parenting language Ali Fanshawe

Sarah Naish is the inspirational CEO of the Centre of Excellence for Child Trauma as well as being an adoptive and foster parent many times over.  Sarah and I chat about her new book, the A-Z of Survival Strategies for Therapeutic Parents.  It's an amazing (and full of hope!) insight into her journey as a therapeutic parent.



Therapeutic parenting, autism, ASD, ADHD, adoption, adoptive parents, reactive attachment disorder, attachment theory, fostering, foster parent, neurodiverse.

What a treat - an interview with the great Sally Donovan, author, blogger, editor and adoptive parent.

If you haven't read any of Sally Donovan's books, I urge you to look them up and buy them.....NOW!  Here she talks more about her newest book, The Strange and Curious Guide to Trauma.  It's aimed at kids between 8 and 12 years old to help them understand what trauma is and how it can affect us all.

It was launched on 21st March 2022 and is now available in all good book stores.

Enjoy!



Trauma, neurodevelopmental trauma, adoption, adoptive parents, adoptive parenting, special needs, additional needs, attachment disorder, PTSD, therapeutic parenting

Does your child try and control you?  How does that feel for you?  In this episode, we try and dig out the root causes of controlling behaviours in kids and find phrases that we can use to help respond empathically to them to help them manage and make sense of those behaviours as they mature.

Sometimes, kids who display behaviours such as emotional or physical shut down or who like to hide away don't get as much airtime as those who display big behaviours such as anger or rage.  But let's not ignore these behaviours - they are still a sign of struggle.  Let's look at what we can say to kids in shut down or who are hiding away and how our words and actions can help them.

How do you deal with lies?  They're hard to accept and understand.  But how you respond to your lying fizzy kid may help them learn to not lie in the future.  

Why do fizzy kids get hyperactive?  And what can we say and do for them in those moments to help them re-regulate? Join me as we look beyond the behaviours and find phrases and strategies to help our hyperactive kids.