Tag: meltdowns
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Co-Regulation Is Not a Conversation: Why You Can’t Talk a Neurodivergent Child Out of a Meltdown
Co-regulation isn’t something you talk your way into. What actually calms a neurodivergent child mid-meltdown, from a mother who learnt presence beside the dying.
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After-School Restraint Collapse: Why Your Child Melts Down at Home
He held it together all day, then fell apart the moment he got home. What I learnt about after-school restraint collapse, and why the collapse is proof of safety, not failure.
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The First 90 Seconds of a Meltdown: What I Had to Stop Doing
We took our masks off in the entryway. What I did in the ninety seconds that followed decided the afternoon, and for years I got them wrong.
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The Weight I Cannot Put Down: Mothering from Inside the Same Neurotype
The diagnosis did not lift the guilt. It only changed its shape.
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Meltdowns vs Tantrums: What I Got Wrong for Years, and What I Do Differently Now
The school bus pulling up. The doors opening. Him stepping off. For years I met what came next as behaviour, not distress.