Navigating Together

02/02/2026

Looking forward to meeting this Wednesday 4th 9.30am at The Beech House. Our Winter Newsletter is now available and a wonderful article by Rachael included

22/01/2026

Such important reflections about co-regulation as a parent - a wonderful read... this is the ethos behind our "Neurodiversity Empowerment Support Group"

If you’re raising a child with a unique way of experiencing the world, this journey demands presence, patience, and adaptability .

10/01/2026

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09/01/2026

Wonderful to be back meeting together this week at our new location! https://www.beechhousebeaconsfield.co.uk

01/12/2025

☕ Our next Neurodiversity Empowerment Support Group Christmas Coffee Brunch is just around the corner! Join us on 📅 Wednesday 3rd December 🕤 09:30am 📍 The Crown, Church Road, High Wycombe, Penn, HP10 8NY.

Here you will find an inclusive space for those raising extraordinary children! This is a relaxed, drop‑in event — no booking needed! Just come along, and if you know someone who’d love it, tag them or give this post a like to spread the word 📣

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28/11/2025

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16/10/2025

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I can tell you for sure, both my children would have failed the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check. They’ve have failed it again in Year 2. They would have failed the Times Tables Test too, in Year 4. And the Spelling Punctuation and Grammar Test in Year 6.

That’s because we home educated, and we did not push early academics on them. We did not insist that they sat down at desks when they were desperate to roll around and jump. We did not tell them that their whole future would be blighted if they didn’t listen to the teacher or if they were late. We did not tell them how important it was that they sat on their bottoms and put their hand up before they spoke.

When you do this, you get to see how children learn naturally. You see how they go through stages of apparently learning very little, and then suddenly they advance in leaps and bounds. You see how they play and play and play, and then they start to mature and their creativity takes a different form.

With my children, I saw how at age nine they became capable of thinking about the future and working towards a goal. I saw how around age twelve they became more interested in reading, writing and more able to sit still without needing to bounce. I saw how they retained their interest in learning, because we hadn’t forced it upon them. I saw how as they got older they started to plan for their future and to do things they didn’t love now, because it would be important one day.

They are teenagers now. They are not behind their peer group. The years of missed school has not mattered. They learnt years’ worth of reading and maths in months, when they were ready and motivated. Here’s something my son wrote for a book I’m writing that comes out next year. It’s based on his own experience.

"I think when you’re up to around twelve, you’re still very
young and not really able to focus in the way that you
can when you’re older. I think that learning is not as
fruitful then as when you are older, and could even be
harmful because it gives you a negative connotation of
what learning means.

When you get a bit older you’ll realise there are things you
want to do in life. You’ll see that there are skills you need to
learn, and if your perception of learning hasn’t been tainted
by bad experiences then you’ll have more of a motivation to
do it. You will catch up with other people your age who might
at first seem like they’re ahead, because those people will be
learning for the sake of getting something at the end, rather
than for the sake of skill and learning itself."

15/10/2025

Autumn Newsletter has just landed! Link for the article mentioned is here...https://substack.com/home/post/p-176125049

14/10/2025

This is absolutely my experience - gymnastics as Occupational Therapy - fantastic

https://tacanow.org/conference/

04/06/2025

So great to share empowering space this morning with a wonderful group of parents navigating the journey of raising incredible children together!

04/06/2025

We are looking forward to seeing those of you who can join us this morning! 9.30 at The Crown Penn 🙌