Act on your intuition to be a powerful advocate for your child.
Speaking up for your child doesn’t have to be complex. It can be as simple as listening and acting on your intuition. We recently came across this personal story published by our friends at Source Kids about how parents are the experts on their own children, and how one parent built the confidence to advocate for her child, Amy. Building confidence to advocate for your child. Personal growth can happen in funny places. You can look for it in yoga class, or while you’re meditating, or running up a hill. Often glimmers of it can be seen, grasped at, held on to during that tricky vinyasa or challenging last 200 metres but you don’t necessarily expect to find it crumpled down the back of the fold-out chair next to your child’s hospital bed. Although, perhaps that’s the metaphor, the promise of all those asanas and kilometres – focus and breathe through the tough bits and clarity will be yours. And we’ve been through a tough bit health-wise over the past few months with my daughter. Like with most testing periods, as we come to the tail end of it, battle-scarred but not broken, it is exciting to see how much has