Grown ups are responsible for what happens at school

When grown ups don’t interfere with social processes in the class and group when these processes result in exclusion of a few, children are hurt. This is happening at the school of my daughters, and has been happening. Now the story unfolds itself it becomes clear that grown ups have seen this exclusion and didn’t [...]

Care for babies: mom or money?

When I expected my first child I was delighted. Because my husband had to finish his studies first, he did, and we decided I would take my time to finish mine. I loved studying and I’ve spend time collecting knowledge and experience at all sorts of places at our university: psychology, medicine, sociology, pegagogics, biology, [...]

Emancipation devaluated motherhood

When we woke up we had a huge surprise: snow!! Again the trees were loaded with white beauty, and snowdrops drifted down. Such a pity that the rising temperature dealt with it so fast. Today was International Women’s Day. I’ve studied during the seventies. Strikes, women yelling they want to be boss in their own [...]

I told her: no homework

Homework. The burden of each young person. It belongs to life. Or not? I’ve blogged before about the enormous amount of homework: here. Yesterday one of the girls was sitting beside me, making her homework. It was quiet and rather relaxed. She’d been staring at her books before. Suddenly I felt she was nearly crying [...]

The social worker “knew it all” and now autistic Gomey is taken away from his family.

Those who are reading this blog for a longer time know I’m a mom of 4 autistic sons and my past with caretakers and other professionals in education, care and psychiatry consists of 23 intensive years. I was able to stand as a brick for my children because I studied psychology and specialised in autism. [...]

schizoid, autistic, such a crap online!

Afrer my son got his wrong diagnosis of having schizoid traits I felt the need to (again) refresh my knowledge and I took a deep dive into the subject. I’m glad I know how to find the real good info, and I’m even happier to be able to read into research and make the difference [...]

topdroppers december 2009

It’s one day early, but I don’t feel like blogging at the moment. I have 4 sons, three of them are officially diagnosed with autism spectrum syndrome. Their father and some family members suffer from it too. My fourth (actually third) son is autistic too. We decided to get his diagnosis of ADHD updated to [...]

Please read my former post

The topic I discussed in my former post has been one of the main themes of today. All I can do is encourage girls and their parents to ask for scientific information and have that information checked by those who have true knowledge about research and statistics. There’s a lot of junk on internet, and [...]

I’m furious about marketing techniques to manipulate girls into taking HPV vaccinations

I’m furious! That doesn’t happen very often, so this is a matter of importance. Remember suddenly the world took action against 2 of the more than 130 HPV’s by vaccinating young girls against, what they called a virus that causes cervical cancer. HPV stands for: HPV stand for humane papilloma virus. These virusses are able [...]

One of the girls is ill

One of the girls didn’t feel well this morning. She was feeling nauseated and dizzy. Even though the girls get enough sleep, she slept such a large part of the day that I started to worry. But she’s just a bit ill, that’s all at the moment. It’s interesting how different children react to illness. [...]