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IN THIS ISSUE Education Special issue! It’s time for Nursery or Pre-School! Choosing the right school for your child School Open Days Issue 131 October 2019 familiesonline.co.uk Welcome to the October issue! CONTACT US: Families North West London Magazine WATFORD BUSHEY Editors: Heather Waddington andRI CKJanineMANSWO RTMerglerH M1 P.O. Box 2378, Watford WD18 1RF STANMORE M25 HATCH END NORTHWOOD T: 01923 237 004 E: [email protected] EDGWARE HARROW WEALD HAREFIELD PINNER KINGSBURY Listings and Features Editor: HARROW WEST RUISLIP HENDON Anna Blackshaw E: [email protected] ICKENHAM DOLLIS HILL SUDBURY PARK www.FamiliesNWLondon.co.uk NORTHOLT BRONDESBURY PARK WEMBLEY UXBRIDGE A40 QUEENS PARK WILLESDEN www.facebook.com/FamiliesNWLondon KILBURN @FamiliesNWLon Readership of over 60,000 local parents, carers and teachers every issue. Published seven times a year. For families from birth to twelve. 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You can collect a copy FREE from scores of outlets: schools, nurseries, play groups, clubs and classes, sports centres, children’s libraries, family doctors and baby clinics, theatres, your local council offices and children’s shops. If you would like to stock copies to give to parents, please let us know. 2 Families North West London familiesonline.co.uk Family Health October is ADHD awareness month - Busting the Myths about ADHD By Tony Buckley ctober is ADHD awareness month Multi-tasking is another thing that children and Families takes up the baton with ADHD tend to struggle with and this can to raise understanding about this cause child and parents significant frustration. Odebilitating condition. Children with ADHD may feel under much When you think of ADHD, what comes to mind? more pressure than other children and feel that Screaming children. Refusal to do schoolwork. they need to be more active and work harder Maybe even violence. But if your child is not than others in order to keep up. Understandably displaying these symptoms, could they still be this contributes significantly to their stress levels suffering from ADHD? The answer is “yes.” as they try to deal with all the tasks they need to complete. Sensational symptoms like screaming, violence and refusal are those that provoke the most Children with ADHD can find it hard to cope sympathy when a parent discusses their child with this degree of stress and pressure and with other parents, or the ones that look most may act this out in a variety of ways, becoming interesting and are easiest to identify when angry, emotional, withdrawn, panicky, portrayed in the media. They are real symptoms argumentative or displaying a range of other that real children with ADHD can (and often stress-induced behaviours. do) exhibit. But these aren’t the only symptoms Equally though, a child with ADHD may simply someone with ADHD might have – they’re appear to be trying to focus very hard on their simply the symptoms that a parent or guardian learning to get through the day and keep up are most likely to notice, as they affect people with their classmates. other than the person with the condition. In neither of the above cases will a child with It’s important to understand that if a child is ADHD necessarily look like a child screaming behaving in an unfocused or hyperactive way This is especially true if their symptoms don’t and throwing things as portrayed in the media. consistently then they may have ADHD. But, not match those expected and recognised by all people with ADHD are unruly and unfocused. society. Many people with ADHD will reach Where can parents find out more? 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Certificate valid for 3 years Cost = £85 Contact Margaret at [email protected] or on 07814 191 395 for bookings Other dates available familiesonline.co.uk Families North West London 3 Family Life Alternative word choices to increase positivity By Susie Ramroop f you have had any exposure to I described a slightly more complex coaching you will have heard about combination move, they shouted “I can’t”. limiting beliefs - those ideas that we What they meant was they didn’t believe Ihold on to tightly and that frame our that they could. Using very clever language entire perspective of the world. They are I got them to have a go, and sure enough set of rules that we live by and they are they all did it. They were jumping for joy unique to us, although we might gravitate and with huge pride, high-fiving me and towards people who happen to share the their friends. same views. “Whether you think you can, or you think Limiting beliefs are unhelpful. They cement you can’t, you’re right” – Henry Ford habits and thought patterns that keep us When you’re child says they can’t do in repeated scenarios. They will rarely be something. Ask them how they know. They empowering, although at some point we will be stumped, and might just be willing to might perceive there having been a pay-off find out whether, indeed, they can. for having them. How do we spot them? Hard One way of becoming aware of these Adults use this word as often as children. beliefs is through language. The words By using it we are teaching them that it is that we use are often a reflection of our normal. Each time they use it, it initiates inner thoughts, and some seem hardwired. another search for evidence that they are “Never” and “always”, leave very little right! wriggle room, for example. The two words Swap out the word “hard” for “new” – this I hear the most around children and adults is viable 90% of the time. When something alike are “can’t” and “hard”, both of which appears “hard”, what we are really can have a dramatic impact on our self- acknowledging is that it is new – we haven’t belief, and our likelihood of getting what we done it before, perhaps we don’t know how want from life.