Christian living on lockdown, family of 6, 2 weeks on...

My favourite back to school items...

Our experience of New Wine 2019

In the previous posts we have discussed how to make church welcoming and accessible to families with autistic children. This post we will look at the pastora...

Perhaps the children always stay with you throughout the service each week at your church or perhaps it's once a month for the family service or maybe the ch...

I cannot emphasise enough the importance of good quality training in helping your volunteers to have understanding and empathy when looking after children wi...

I have 1 child in a specialist school, 1 child I home educate and 2 children in primary. Around here it is typical for primary aged children (4-11) to buy t...

The church is more than just the building, as I wrote previously about creating a culture of acceptance. This time, I want to focus on the building. Whilst...

So church should be a welcoming place to all, Jesus made a point of being with those who did not fit into the social norms. He socialised with tax collector...

So after my last post of losing sight of what really matters. This half term has been a week of rest. However, I do find doing completely nothing stressful ...

I have posted before about how important it is to train children on whats expected from them - we have training at work and life is no different. We cannot ...

As a family we've moved churches twice. I imagine families with typical children, would research and make sure they are happy with what the potential church...

So fitting in weekday family devotional time before we start the day can be tricky... When my children were younger and at the same primary school, I could o...

First and Then Card Visual As I have spoken about previously here, we also used a First and Then card. This was a visual to help our children cope with a ta...

How to stay sane whilst parenting children with autism! Routines and visuals, how they helped to keep a calmer household and trained my children on what was ...

I just wanted to take my child and leave school, like every other parent was doing in the school playground. Surely that's not too much to ask or desire? How...

Living with autistic children makes you look at the world differently and whilst some things are difficult to navigate, others brighten my day! Here's some o...

Being a mother of children with autism sometimes means I am operating on very little energy, strength, sleep and grace. I know people generally mean well an...

Perhaps you would think that after already having a son with Autism that diagnosis the second time round would be straight forward - or that surely after all...

So our son is in a specialist autism school sponsored by the National Autistic Society, how did we do it? how long did it take? Did we have to go to court? R...