Thoughts and Evidence

The Rules We Apply to Children, We Do Not Apply to Adults

The Rules We Apply to Children, We Do Not Apply to Adultsby: KatePublished on: 21/02/2025

We ask children to live by rules we would refuse for ourselves and then we are surprised when they stop believing their own perspective has any standing.

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The Rules We Apply to Children, We Do Not Apply to Adults

Whose Child Is This?

Whose Child Is This?by: KatePublished on: 07/02/2025

Every child has a story and the first person who should be trusted to know it is the parent who has been there from the first word. The tension between families and professional systems.

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Whose Child Is This?

The Question a Room Full of Strangers Asked That Stopped Me in My Tracks

The Question a Room Full of Strangers Asked That Stopped Me in My Tracksby: KatePublished on: 30/11/2024

A Birmingham event audience asked a question that clarified something Kate had been living for twenty years without being able to name.

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The Question a Room Full of Strangers Asked That Stopped Me in My Tracks