Giving your sibling child attention
…thing. If you only ever give attention to bad or undesirable behaviour, then you’ll definitely get more of it. Take some time just to observe your child rather than getting…
…thing. If you only ever give attention to bad or undesirable behaviour, then you’ll definitely get more of it. Take some time just to observe your child rather than getting…
“The Search for Still Waters is about one sibling’s journey to make sense of his feelings around the life and death of his sister, who had severe cerebral palsy. Aoife…
…don’t need to explain the details or all the history and complications in the early stages Encourage them to be curious and ask questions. Understand their experiences with disabled people…
…discuss with you Tell a parent if you don’t understand and keep asking questions – even a parent can find it hard to understand disability Read about what you can…
Why it’s important to include siblings Improves understanding It helps siblings to understand more about why their brother or sister needs extra attention and help. For example, a sibling can…
…thinking or understands’. Moving out of my home was a bit of a relief for me – I had much more time to myself where I could do more of…
…night) due to complex medical needs. At a time when we had very little support pre-Covid, we now have even less. How does anyone make a decision to allow others…
…community, but as yet, we have not found an alternative solution which works easily for all. If you have ideas on helping us with this, we would very much welcome…
…constantly for five weeks, and he even commented that he liked that one. Second time around, I spent the first week elsewhere again, so my dressings were clean by the…
…then. I moved away from home for the last time when I was 22, I was ready to never come back. I’d realised that my being around made things worse….