Best Tips for Travelling with a Child with Special Needs
Article courtesy of Lillian Brooks lillian@learningdisabilities.info Are you and the kids craving a holiday? Taking a family vacation can often get pretty complicated, especially if your child has a disability. However, you can ensure everyone’s needs and desires are...
Not Every Act of Meanness is Bullying
One of our jobs is to help children and young people to interpret events proportionally. However, in recent times, I have seen a shift involving the wrong application of words like trauma, depression and bullying. When these very meaningful words are misused, their...
‘Agency’ and ‘limits’ are needed to promote self-regulation and creativity in children
By Michael Hawton, MAPS As The National Quality Standards continue to drive excellency in the early education settings, I have noticed two words being increasingly used around promoting self-regulation and creativeness in children – agency and limits. Agency is being...
Problem solving – without Google!
How to incorporate funcraft and educational learning in the home… By Michael Hawton, Parentshop It’s time to shut off the screen, step away from the iPad and look at new (or should I say old-school) ways of educating children through funcraft and games. While it may...
The current problem of gang-related youth violence in Victoria
By Michael Hawton, MAPS. We do not need another task force to determine why these young people are behaving anti-socially or to work out what we should do to remedy this problem. Yet another taskforce or commission assessing youth violence will arrive at pretty...
Delays in the system are denying children their right to form an attachment with adopting parents
By Michael Hawton, MAPS. At the recent Adopt Change national conference in November in Sydney, I heard the former CEO of the UK’s Barnardos, Sir Martin Narey, speak about how they assess the suitability of foster carers in Britain. Sir Martin said that people...
Every child deserves a family
This week I will speak at the national ‘National Permanency Conference’ run by Adopt Change in Sydney. It is a conference about how we can help children form attachments and how we can help them be secure by placing them in more permanent placements by making...
