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Parents are often told to wait for the report, wait for school, wait for the right words. Meanwhile, children are already building their own explanation for why mornings feel impossible, why reading feels slower, why noise hurts, why big feelings arrive before their thinking brain has caught up. This episode is about how to explain ADHD, dyslexia or autism to your child without making them feel br...

She looks fine at school, then crumbles at home - and everyone keeps acting like that means the problem is home. It does not. This episode tackles ADHD girls and reading through the lens of masking, literacy access and the quiet collapse that happens when children work twice as hard to appear okay. I talk about the UK picture, including the diagnosis gap between boys and girls, and why girls can b...

Reading at home should not feel like a nightly emotional ambush. But for some ADHD children, one correction, one question or one tiny prompt can tip the whole thing into tears, anger, silliness, shutdown or storming out. This conversation is about ADHD, reading and rejection sensitive support at home. I look at why reading can feel so exposing for a child who is already sensitive to criticism, fai...

I looked fine on paper, so nobody looked closer. That is the tension running through this episode - how ADHD can hide in plain sight when a girl is bright, articulate, high-achieving and broadly compliant. I talk about being diagnosed at 37 after years of being seen as clever, academic and capable, while parts of school still felt bizarrely hard. Not because I could not do the work, but because in...

Children don't always hate reading, they just hate what reading feels like... Constant nervous system shaking and the need to protect themselves from shame and embarrassment. And it's no wonder, because they're always corrected more than their peers! In this episode, I’m sharing my tonight-ready plan: no surprise performance, make it smaller, protect flow, and use one sentence that calms the whole...

Some children are not refusing to learn. They are hitting a wall before the task has even properly started. In this episode, I talk about ADHD, reading difficulty and the children we’ve been getting wrong in school. I explain why I call reading the passport skill and why weak, slow or effortful reading can quietly block access to everything - not just English, but maths word problems, science ques...

Reading is usually framed as an academic skill. I think that misses the bigger picture. For children with ADHD, reading can shape far more than school results. It can build emotional vocabulary, perspective-taking, self-understanding and the ability to respond rather than simply react. And when reading is hard, those quieter losses can stack up fast. In this episode, I talk about why books help ch...

ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia. People panic the second a label enters the room. As if naming a child’s needs is the thing that will damage them. I do NOT buy that. In this episode, I talk about why so many parents and educators resist labels, why diagnosis can bring huge relief, and why the real danger is not understanding but ignorance, stigma and low expectations. I get into ADHD misconcepti...

Reading is not just an English issue. It is a gateway skill. When a child with ADHD falls behind in reading, the impact does not stay neatly inside literacy lessons. It spills into every subject, every homework battle, every exam question, every form, every instruction and every moment where independence depends on understanding words on a page. In this episode, I make the case for why weak litera...

Headlines about the SEND White Paper can hit like a punch. In this episode I give my plain-English take on what the government is proposing: earlier support in mainstream, less reliance on EHCPs as the only route to help, and a new layer called an Individual Support Plan (ISP) to record and monitor provision. I also share where I agree with the direction of travel (support shouldn’t be locked behi...