Practices

Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.

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2 practices
How long you have
Who it is written for
Where you are right now · Getting ready for something
Theme · The cost of avoiding
When · In a change

Two stretches of childhood carry most of this: the first years of school, and the middle years around the move to secondary. Knowing that lets you prepare instead of react.

The early wobble is usually about being apart from home for a long day for the first time. The later one lands when peer opinion becomes the loudest…

Five minutesThe cost of avoidingCBTQur’an 3:186

A child coming back after weeks away is walking towards a mountain of missed work. Cut that mountain down before the return date, or it will punish them for coming.

Ask the school which pieces genuinely have to be made up and which can be written off, and get the answer in writing. What is left should be small…

Twenty minutesThe cost of avoidingCBTQur’an 94:7

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