Why Children with Trauma Chew Everything
And how to stop them.
Gareth K Thomas
Behaviour Below Ground
Making sense of things by going beneath the surface.
False Red Alarms
The text message that sent Hawai’i into panic, and our own threat detection system.
Bunny Business
A Therapeutic Parent’s Quick Guide to Surviving the Easter Break.
The Dark Room
Your brain exists in the dark. When the lights are always out, the only way to survive is to keep guessing.
Excellent Detectors
How children with early-life trauma detect the smallest vibrations.
The third mode of parenting
Permissive, Repressive, and the magic bit in between.
Mixed Signals: Summer leaving
No. 40 – 10th of September, 2023
I'm back from the summer break. Just as summer seems to begin.
As usual, our summer was a blur of camping, sleepovers, rugby training, and far too much food (back to the gym routine for me).
I'm excited to be
Mixed Signals: Technically better
No. 39 – 2nd of July, 2023
Lots of my thinking/reading/writing revolves around these two points:
1. Tech could make our lives better
2. Tech currently makes our lives worse
There was a point, not too long ago, when keeping your home clean and tidy became much easier. Vacuum
Mixed Signals: Banning time
No. 38 – 4th of June, 2023
Change feels slow. Especially where we need it most.
Yet change is happening all the time. It wasn't too long ago, at my first proper job, that I would spend the entirety of my 10 hour shift answering the phone, and reading