‘Parenting’ Archive
There Are Exceptions
Last Friday was a great day. An hour before we set off for the Big Day Out, the mail arrived. It contained our older boy’s first set of NCEA results. He achieved every Level 1 standard he sat, and picked up a couple of merits along the way.
For an Asperger Syndrome child we once thought [...]
Getting lost on a straightforward journey
You don’t want to go around diagnosing strangers, but it wasn’t hard to think of the A-word when the stories broke this weekend around the police searching the Whitianga home of 18 year-old Owen Walker. Solitary, sensitive, home-schooled after being bullied — and, of course, good with computers.
Now, his mother, Shell Moxham-Whyte, has confirmed to [...]