Sarah Naish is the inspirational CEO of the Centre of Excellence for Child Trauma as well as being an adoptive and foster parent many times over.  Sarah and I chat about her new book, the A-Z of Survival Strategies for Therapeutic Parents.  It's an amazing (and full of hope!) insight into her journey as a therapeutic parent. Therapeutic parenting, autism, ASD, ADHD, adoption, adoptive parents, reactive attachment disorder, attachment theory, fostering, foster parent, neurodiverse ..read more

What a treat - an interview with the great Sally Donovan, author, blogger, editor and adoptive parent. If you haven't read any of Sally Donovan's books, I urge you to look them up and buy them.....NOW!  Here she talks more about her newest book, The Strange and Curious Guide to Trauma.  It's aimed at kids between 8 and 12 years old to help them understand what trauma is and how it can affect us all. It was launched on 21st March 2022 and is now available in all good book stores. Enjoy! Trauma, neurodevelopmental trauma, adoption, adoptive parents, adoptive parenting, special needs ..read more

Does your child try and control you?  How does that feel for you?  In this episode, we try and dig out the root causes of controlling behaviours in kids and find phrases that we can use to help respond empathically to them to help them manage and make sense of those behaviours as they mature ..read more

Sometimes, kids who display behaviours such as emotional or physical shut down or who like to hide away don't get as much airtime as those who display big behaviours such as anger or rage.  But let's not ignore these behaviours - they are still a sign of struggle.  Let's look at what we can say to kids in shut down or who are hiding away and how our words and actions can help them ..read more

How do you deal with lies?  They're hard to accept and understand.  But how you respond to your lying fizzy kid may help them learn to not lie in the future.   ..read more

Why do fizzy kids get hyperactive?  And what can we say and do for them in those moments to help them re-regulate? Join me as we look beyond the behaviours and find phrases and strategies to help our hyperactive kids ..read more

We're not shying away from difficult topics this season - in this podcast we find language that can help in situations where your child may be hitting or hurting you and/or others.  We explore phrases that may help during an incident, after an incident and also language to use with siblings who are witnessing these difficult moments ..read more

We're back!  Season 3 kicks off with a reminder of how what we say, and how we say it, can dramatically improve your family dynamics.  Because we learn to use language and phrases that either prevents our kids going in to their primary brain and survival mode OR helps them come out of survival mode a bit quicker. I tell you a little bit about our family story and how we ended up with idea of re-learning our parenting language. And there's a great bit of feedback from a lovely follower who shares her experience of using a different language approach to help her autistic son. parenti ..read more

“Calm down!” “How dare you talk to me like that!”  How do you talk to your kids when they are struggling with their behaviours and big feelings? Join Ali on her quest to transform her parenting language and the way she interacts with her fizzy kids. Ali Fanshawe from FizzyKids shares wins and woes of parenting emotional, fizzy kids and offers ideas to learn a new parenting language and approach to help kids learn to manage their emotions and big feelings. Discover the importance of what you say to your kids and how you say it, so that you can help regulate your fizzy kid at home, in publi ..read more

Meet Steph. Steph is an Autism Specialist Teacher and Advisor. Steph is on a mission to support autistic and neurodiverse learners to reach their potential. Over the years she has equipped loads of parents and teachers with tools and strategies needed to teach and empower kids. She believes that teaching should be totally inclusive and designs strategies and systems that benefit not just autistic children, but all children. And this is really important to us at fizzy kids – because not all of you have kids who have diagnosed learning or emotional difficulties. Some of our fizzy kids are just t ..read more