From their lips to my ear - Grande one - "I can't do all that work, I'm only made of toothpaste you know." Grade six - "If I had a million dollars and a pickup truck would you marry me?" Grade two- "Here's my lunch money!" "Why is it all in change?" "I stole it from my mom so we could hang out over lunch!" Grade one - "I have 5$ if I give it to you would you hang out with me?" "I will just do that for free." "Great because I really wanted to buy a car." Grade one: I walked in

Trauma kids live in the moment - we must be available to be there with them. As educators and support staff we often struggle with our challenging kids as their progressions seems so slow or they move forward only to regress. I like to ask people to step outside for a moment and put themselves in a similar situation which would affect them on the same level and ask the question: How would I cope effectively? If you were facing a similar crisis, would you be able to come to wo

Behaviour is never a child’s "fault" it is merely a “symptom” of life experience (trauma, poor role modelling) or the challenge of a brain process (ASD, ADHD, FASD, IED). If you can shift your perception to view it this way it is much easier to step back and see the big picture. Managing it and changing it is a about understanding the function the behaviour serves, and the needs that are going unmet to create it. Once you understand the behaviour you can begin to meet the nee