‘Just ‘tend that I’m the dolphin mum, and I say you can’t swim outside the sandpit.’ ‘Yeah! And just ‘tend, that I go anyway, and I swim out here on the grass.’
‘Yeah, and just ‘tend, that I get this shark to come and bite you because you won’t stay in the sandpit.’
Jen Francis
It’s two weeks before Christmas. The exhaustion that comes along with the end of the calendar
and school year is palpable throughout the clinic. I’m baked. The kids are all baked. My next client
is an eight-year-old boy with ASD, with whom I’ve conducted over 20 sessions during the year
working on emotional and social skills.