by Sibylle | Feb 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
Problems are opportunities for interaction. They open the door to your child or the other person, so you can find out, what HE is thinking or feeling. Problems are not ‘bad’ or ‘a problem’. Or something to send you into a panic. They are not ‘your fault’ or something...
by Sibylle | Jan 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
A child who is unable to focus and pay attention is not going to be able to learn. What can we do to help? There are two guiding ‘principles’ to keep in mind that help a child to focus and share attention. One I call ‘walking the tightrope between fear and delight’,...
by Sibylle | Jan 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
The shelf that you suggested we put into our living room arrived yesterday. You were so right about it. I couldn’t believe, how interested Asif was in the play materials that we displayed in it. And I only had to show him once about taking things out and putting them...
by Sibylle | Jan 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
Being with a child with autism or autistic-like behaviours often leaves us feeling lost or helpless, because the child is uncooperative and rejecting, not responding affectionately, rarely accepting anything that is offered to him, often distant, isolated and...
by Sibylle | Jan 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
Autistic-like. When it’s not autism. What is it? ‘When their son was just 17 months old, Erik and Jennie Linthorst suspected something was not quite right. Experts and therapists told them their son was autistic. Sort of. Maybe. Some called him autistic-like. Others...
by Sibylle | Jan 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
Required viewing for all parents whose child was born from 1984 onwards, and everyone else. Brilliant perspective on our children’s generation, the downside of child-centred parenting, a generation crippled by low self esteem and social media addiction, entitlement,...
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