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School asks a great deal of a small nervous system. Noise, waiting, lining up, getting thing...

Children rarely want to talk about their feelings on demand. They will, however, quite happi...

Supermarkets. Soft play. School halls. Places that are ordinary to most people and genuinely...

The teacher says they are a delight. The childminder says no trouble at all. Then the front ...

Waiting is its own experience, and children feel it in the body long before they have words ...

For some children a plan is not a preference. It is the thing holding the day together, and ...

Some children go loud when things get difficult. Others go completely quiet, and the quiet i...

Worries are not very good at waiting. They arrive during dinner, halfway through a game, and...

Not every difficult day has a reason. Sometimes a child simply wakes up grey, and every ques...

It comes up fast. One moment the day is ordinary, and the next there is something enormous i...

Some mornings the heaviness arrives before the shoes are on. Nothing has gone wrong yet. The...

Bedtime is not hard because children do not want to sleep. It is hard because a busy body do...