Guilty, shamed and traumatised - What school avoidance feels like for parents And why parents and children shouldn't be punished...

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School Avoidance & Autism is absolute hell.

#emilywrites #schoolavoidance #audhd #AoNZ

www.emilywrites.co.nz/guilty-shame...

Guilty, shamed and traumatised - What school avoidance feels like for parents And why parents and children shouldn't be punished...

"When your child physically shakes at the thought of school…
When your child cannot use their words to explain their fear…
When you’re called every day to pick up your child because they’re so upset…
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These are not hypotheticals."

#EmilyWrites #NZPol

www.emilywrites.co.nz/guilty-shame...

The government's creative storytelling must be addressed Today, I'm happy to share a guest post from one of the best people I know. My dear friend Helen Gilby is so bright and so funny. And y’all loved her last posts, Seymour's Aotearoa: How to Lose a Count...

"that stat ... about the average beneficiary being on a benefit for 18 years, isn’t what she makes it sound like.
It’s a modelling estimate ... that projects how long people might receive a main benefit over their lifetime"

#NZPol #Beneficiaries #EmilyWrites

www.emilywrites.co.nz/the-governme...

The media literacy game There's a game that my children do not like, but I insist we play it. We have talked before about manufacturing consent for genocide in our media - this post is an extension of that. So, let's play....

"Today, 14 October, the news will be dominated by the hostages released from Israel and Gaza. Now you might be thinking - hold on, what hostages were released in Israel?
Well, let's talk about the hostages taken by Israel."

#MediaLiteracy #Gaza #EmilyWrites

www.emilywrites.co.nz/the-media-li...

Seymour's Aotearoa: How to Lose a Country in 10 Clauses Shitposting doesn't a democracy make...

#emilywrites friend Helen wrote something, and it captures quite well the thing of it!
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#NZPol

Seymour's Aotearoa: How to Lose a Country in 10 Clauses Shitposting doesn't a democracy make...

"And if we’ve already sold off the ports, the supply chains, the processing plants? We won’t even get a say. We’ll be the pantry, not the people at the table."

#NZPol #Aotearoa #EmilyWrites

emilywrites.substack.com/p/seymours-a...

They aren't us? This government wants us to forget

"In the aftermath of the horrific attacks, New Zealanders swore that his values weren’t ours. They - we - pushed back on the ‘us’ and ‘them’ rhetoric of racism and islamophobia.
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But was that true? Is it true now?"

#NZPol #TheyAreUs #Racism #EmilyWrites

emilywrites.substack.com/p/they-arent...

Will Simeon Brown try to shut down Family Planning? The Health Minister's dark past is a concern.

Important mahi from #EmilyWrites

Will Simeon Brown try to shut down Family Planning? open.substack.com/pub/emilywri...

Thanks. I did my Regulatory Standards submission. Thanks also to #Emilywrites.

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A HUGE thank you to #EmilyWrites for this incredible submission guide for a couple of dangerous #NZ bills on the cards.

If you're in #NewZealand I strongly recommend you get a couple of these done in the next ten minutes or so, before submissions close tonight […]

If you're subscribed, I can tell you that you'll really enjoy the #emilywrites substack today.

Thank god for abortion; if only it were safe and legal everywhere. Well done #emilywrites and @XTOTL.