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For parents who sense there’s more to their child — and to childhood — than what’s being seen or said. Exploring the assumptions, expectations, and systems shaping how children are understood, and what becomes possible as those patterns begin to shift.

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We’re Often Looking at the Child — Not What’s Shaping Them

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Last week I wrote about children who seem perfectly fine at school and then fall apart at home. As I reflected on the responses, I found myself returning to a question that has occupied me for years.

If the same child...

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The Child Who’s ‘Fine’ at School and Falls Apart at Home

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I lost count of the amount of times I met this pattern in my work with children. Most often, I was sitting somewhere between different realities — a school describing a child as “getting along fine”, and a parent sitt...

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When Attention Becomes Interference

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The Moment Something Shifts

In the early pages of reading a book — before the plot has fully taken hold — things begin to form alongside the words. A place appears. A house, perhaps, or a street, or simply a se...

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Field Notes from the Natural Learning Path — May 2026

Field notes from everyday life-learning — small moments that shape children’s learning and growth.


This month, I’ve been writing about the tension between doing and being, the limits of labels, what we may be misreading when childr...

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Stop Outsourcing Your Parenting

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In The System Doesn’t End at the School Gate, I wrote about how many of us gradually move away from trust and into management. How school conditions urgency into the nervous system. How external...

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    Exploring the assumptions, expectations, and systems shaping how children are understood. Drawing on a background in speech therapy and education to examine what gets missed beneath behaviour, labels, and interpretations.

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    Neuroscientist, doctor and mother translating brain science into grounded, compassionate insights for parents. Free workbook for overwhelmed parents

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