Eliza Fricker
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236 appearances
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first heard Oct 2022
last heard Oct 2022
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know if they don't put their coat on they're going to get cold but that's okay you know so it's all of that you you really start to look at everything and go back and question it and and I've done a lot of stuff for myself to make sure that I am able to to be there and be able to parent as best I can you know for me exercise has been a massive
help for me I'm very slim but I do weight lifting and I do boxing and that just keeps me sane so you find those things that really work for you there is a lot of work to be done on ourselves on this journey and and I always say have lots and lots of fun because I think we can get really bogged down in things and actually just having a fun nice time is not going to hurt anyone
Yeah, I think particularly with PDA, because as you mentioned earlier, it's something that because it's not in the DSM-5 manual, it's
Some professionals particularly can be very, well, they just won't entertain the idea of PDA.
So you could say my child is PDA and they will say, well, we don't believe in that.
We don't see that.
We don't agree with that or whatever.
That can be really challenging.
So often I just talk about really simple things.
Don't even mention PDA.
You know, if you've got in-laws that are like, oh, another label, you're putting another label on your child.
Just talk about the profile of PDA.
Say that your child has extreme anxiety.
and that leads to avoiding demands, you can put all of that in place without mentioning PDA.
A parent said to me, a friend said that they actually just emailed their family before Christmas, which is again, you know, tricky time, very demand laden, a lot of expectations.
She said, I just emailed my parents and I said, just to let you know, he won't be eating at the dinner table.
He's going to have a pizza.
And actually just by emailing her parents, they could hear that, you know, they had time to read it.
They had time to sit with it because often we feel so tense and we're so stressed and we're
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