Just Kids Health

23/02/2026

Serious building activity in clinic 🏗🏬👷

23/02/2026

We’re excited to launch **Early Steps Forward** a new program helping children get the right health and development support early, when it matters most.

Run by nurse practitioners from Just Kids Health. We offer development and health checks, clear advice for families and help connecting with supports. No GP referral needed.

Starting in selected schools and Goodstart Early Learning centres in 2026.

20/02/2026

Move over dollies... it's time for the puppets and teddies to have dress-ups and health checks 🩺❤
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18/02/2026

Let’s be honest, the Summer Holidays are very long! For children this means that the first few weeks back at school is usually a BIG adjustment. How do you know if they are really settling in?

28/01/2026

This is really useful for all parents who are co-parenting in different households, but especially if your child/children has PDA

Co-Parenting With an Ex Who Doesn’t Understand PDA

Co-parenting a PDA child is hard enough when you're on the same team.
But co-parenting with an ex who doesn’t understand PDA… that’s a whole different level of emotional work.

Especially when they revert to old-school lines like:
“Just make them do it.”
“They’re manipulating you.”
“You’re too soft.”
“They’ll toughen up eventually.”

And suddenly, the child is stuck between two completely different parenting worlds, one focused on safety and connection, and one focused on compliance and control.

Here are some things that could help in this situation:

1. Stick to your lane
You cannot control what happens in the other house.
You can only control the safety, environment, and connection you offer in yours.
Your consistency matters more than you realise.

2. Communicate through facts, not fights
Instead of debating PDA, keep it simple and neutral:
“When he’s overwhelmed, demands create shutdowns. Here’s what helped today…”
or
“Here’s what made things worse last week, so we might want to avoid that.”
You’re sharing information, not trying to convert them.

3. Focus on the child’s nervous system, not the label
Sometimes saying “PDA” triggers defensiveness.
But saying:
“He’s not coping in survival mode, this is fear, not misbehaviour,”
lands better.
Everyone understands fear.
Not everyone understands PDA.

4. Keep a predictable, low-pressure home base
You’d be surprised how stabilising it is for a PDA child to know:
“At Mum’s house, I’m safe.”
“At Dad’s house, I’m safe.”
Even if BOTH homes don’t feel that way, ONE safe home changes the entire dynamic.

5. Don’t carry the blame
You are not “soft.”
You are not “making it worse.”
You are not “creating the behaviour.”
You are responding to the nervous system in front of you.
And the best thing you can do is keep doing what works, even if the other parent isn’t on board yet.

6. Protect your peace
If communication with the ex is heated, short, or unproductive:
Use email.
Keep it brief.
No long explanations.
No debates.
Just the facts.

7. Remember: kids grow up and they understand who made them feel safe
Children might not have the language today, but they absolutely know:
• who scared them
• who pushed too hard
• who regulated with them
• who made room for their nervous system
• who helped them feel understood
Your relationship with your child is being built moment by moment, not through compliance, but through connection.

28/01/2026

“I built a school… it has lots of floors and a blue path to the door. There are flowers in the playground and a BBQ on the deck.”

27/01/2026

Creations in clinic…

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13/01/2026

Dog Man fan in clinic today 😍 🐶

12/01/2026

A good starting point to learn about PDA 👇👇

We’re often asked where to find a clear, compassionate resource that explains PDA in a way that truly reflects real life.

Understanding PDA: A Guide for Parents, Educators and Supporters is a practical, neuro affirming resource written by social worker and PDA parent Kirsty Beazley. It blends lived experience with nervous system understanding and real world strategies to support individuals with PDA profiles.

Inside, you’ll find clear explanations of PDA, insight into what’s happening beneath behaviour, and practical tools that focus on reducing pressure, supporting regulation, and working in partnership rather than control.

Available as an ebook PDF or printed hard copy, with commercial licences also available for professional use. You can find this resource, along with a few free supports, here:

👉 https://mind-co.com.au/resources 🌻

12/01/2026

We are back in clinic from today!!


How are your holidays going?

We did this:
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Here are some pictures from the last week:

31/12/2025

A thought for the New Year…

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NEW YEAR’S EVE
A Gentle Note for the Mind Co Community

As the year wraps up, I just want to offer something soft and real, especially for the PDA parents, the neurodivergent families, the quietly exhausted, the ones doing their best in circumstances most people will never understand.

✨ You don’t have to set big goals tonight.
✨ You don’t need a “new you” tomorrow.
✨ You don’t have to pretend this year wasn’t heavy.
✨ And you definitely don’t need to push yourself into optimism you don’t feel.

What you can do, is notice the small ways you kept going:
💛 the moments you co-regulated when you were running on fumes
💛 the battles you picked up, and the ones you walked away from
💛 the advocacy emails you wrote at midnight
💛 the meltdowns you absorbed with tenderness
💛 the boundaries you learned to hold more gently
💛 the days you chose rest instead of expectations
💛 the way you showed up for your child again… and again… and again

None of that is small.
None of that is invisible.
None of that is wasted.

You’ve done a year of deep emotional labour, the kind that doesn’t get celebrated in highlight reels.

So if tonight is quiet… or chaotic… or emotional… or nothing like what other families are doing, that’s okay.
Your version of New Year’s Eve is allowed to be exactly what your nervous system needs.

Here’s to a softer year ahead.
More curiosity.
More safety.
More autonomy.
More connection.
More moments where you feel supported, not judged.

Thank you for being here with me and with each other.
This community is something special. 💛