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19/11/2025

19/11/2025

Your calm teaches more than your words.🩵

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19/11/2025

In Denmark, children aged 6 to 16 take part in a weekly class known as “klassens tid”—or “class time.”

Unlike regular lessons, this period isn’t about grades or exams. It’s a safe space where students gather to talk, listen, and learn how to understand one another.

During these sessions, children share their feelings, discuss small challenges, and explore how their actions affect others. Teachers guide them through conversations about empathy, respect, and cooperation—skills that build emotional intelligence from an early age.

The Danish model also extends compassion beyond human relationships. Schools teach care for animals and nature, helping students recognize empathy as a universal value that includes all living beings.

Through “class time,” Denmark nurtures a generation that values understanding over competition and empathy over ego—proving that true education begins in the heart.

Source: Jensen, P. & Larsen, H. (2023). Emotional Learning in Nordic Education: The Role of “Klassens Tid” in Danish Schools. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Development, 19, 67–79.

19/11/2025

The signs of slow processing you may have missed...https://ilslearningcorner.com/2016-09-processing-speed-slow-processing-speed-makes-simple-tasks-daunting-kids/

19/11/2025

Most toddlers are busy learning ABCs and counting, but what they really need are the invisible skills that shape their brains for life. By age 5, gaps in these foundational skills become much harder to close.

The three core skills that determine lifelong success are focus, language, and confidence.

Focus is a secret superpower. Kids who practice paying attention early struggle less in school later. Simple activities like stacking blocks or drawing without interruption train their brains to sustain attention. Observe quietly, don’t correct or praise constantly, and let their focus grow naturally.

Language builds confidence. Early communication helps children develop social skills, curiosity, and self-expression. Narrate what they do, like “Stack the red block. Look how round it is,” then pause and let them respond. Every word becomes a connection in the brain, laying the foundation for learning and relationship skills.

Confidence emerges when children feel safe to explore, make mistakes, and solve problems independently.

Focusing on these skills before age 3 gives your child a head start in school and life. Foundations matter more than facts.

19/11/2025

WHEN I COME OUT OF SCHOOL…

I’ve held it together all day — smiling when I didn’t feel OK, copying others so I could fit in, keeping my stims small and hidden.

So when I come out of school…
Please don’t ask me to talk straight away.
Please don’t tell me how good I was.
Please just let me rest, be quiet, and feel safe again.

Want to understand more about masking and neurodivergent wellbeing?

Explore the full Masking Toolkit by The Contented Child for visuals, guides, and practical tools that help uncover what’s behind the mask — and support children to feel safe being their true selves. Link in comments ⬇️ or via Linktree Shop in our Bio.

NOTE
Some children do mask so competently that it can be hard to get a diagnosis - that is why I created Meet My Brain: Power & the Tricky Bits. Link in comments.

19/11/2025

WE ASKED OUR MEMBERS TO DESCRIBE WHAT AMC MEANS TO THEM IN 3 WORDS, here’s what they said…

Hope, Strength, Brothers

Saved My Life

Brotherhood, Calmness, Supported

Safe, Empathetic, Sanctuary

Purpose, Stability, belonging

A safe space

Heard, Accepted, Supported

Recovery, Reset, Relax

I’m still here…

Sound like something that you’d like to experience? We are open Every Monday at 7pm except Bank Holidays in 300+ locations and online! No fees, no bookings, no referral needed…just turn up and have a brew and biscuit!

Email info@andysmanclub.co.uk for more info or check the website www.andysmanclub.co.uk for your nearest group!

19/11/2025

19/11/2025

Coffee shops, we'd love your help 💛☕️

Christmas can often be a difficult time, particularly for people who are experiencing loneliness.

This Christmas, we're encouraging people to because for some, a simple conversation could mean everything.

We're sending out FREE "I'm Happy To Chat" table signs to cafes across the UK to help spark conversation, spread connection and tackle loneliness head on.

☕️Pop them on a table OR let customers pick them up at the till

If your cafe would like to get involved, find the link in the comments 💬

Let's give the gift of conversation this Christmas🎄

19/11/2025

💥 Leeds Dads Health Summit, 5-7pm, Weds 19 Nov 2025
Leeds Playhouse, Quarry Hill, LS2 7UP

This event aims to:

Support Dads as the government launches the new Men’s Health Strategy

Celebrate Supporting Parents as the theme of Baby Week Leeds

Raise awareness about men's mental health on International Men’s Day

Leeds Dads’ aim is to support dads who are struggling with issues like isolation and depression.


Leeds Council’s Men’s Health Champion Cllr Paul Wray will attend with an update on the Men’s Health Strategy, and key health bodies have been invited to the event.
�Book your free ticket: https://leedsdads.org/events
Email info@leedsdads.org

There will be pizza and toys!
Bring the kids!

19/11/2025

The way we greet children after school sets the tone for the whole afternoon

After holding it together all day, they need calm connection, not a flood of questions.

Here are some simple do’s and don’ts to make pick-up smoother for everyone.

Introducing the After School Restraint Collapse Toolkit for Parents & Educators - link in comments.