December 2025 Archives

Parenting while grieving

If you are grieving right now, be gentle. Ask for help. Let yourself be held when you can. This is not something to rush or get through. It is something we learn how to live with. You cannot get this wrong. Take care as best you can.

Year 6 and the neurodiverse girl: the year we ask too much, too soon

With the right support, Year 6 can also be a year of deep growth. A year where she learns: I can ask for what I need. I can find my people. I can come home to myself.

Neurodiverse girls and periods: why we’re still getting this wrong

Neurodiverse girls do not need to be toughened up to cope with periods. We need to soften the systems around them.

AI and Teen Mental Health

AI is contributing to the anxiety crisis – and teens are turning to AI to soothe the anxiety that AI helped create.
Our girls need us to stop outsourcing their emotional lives to machines out of convenience or despair.

The Crisis We’re Still Not Naming: Neurodivergent Girls and Puberty

That’s what I want for every neurodivergent girl stepping into puberty: Not to be tidied up, Not to be normalised, But to be met, resourced, and celebrated. And if we get that right for her, we make growing up better for every girl.