Many issues come with parenting my daughter. We try our best to help but we don't know where to start or what to do. School have told me today that she absconded and then fell asleep on the pavement. Why?
The school have seen an escalation in her dangerous and disruptive behaviours. They have escalated quickly and involve a number of serious incidents. She has severe anxiety and as her anxities increase, she will become quiet and withdrawn and will seek a quiet space, every from staff. She has difficulty accessing designated safe spaces and will often refuse to use these. If continued to be heightened, she will abscond from school. She displays challenging behaviour when off site, including, approaching strangers, injuring herself and staff, displaying unsafe behaviours next to a busy road. She often hits out at staff as a way of coping during times of distress, uncertainty, or when her verbal communication is limited. Staff feel like she is trying to control her environment.
She fell asleep on the pavement, anyone could've taken her. I don't know why things have escalated. She used to have little incidents which happened everyday and is now coping better and doesn't really have bad incidents anymore but when she does, they are really bad.
When she does go offiste, the only people who follow her are her staff and they give her space and if she runs they won't run after her which I believe is helping her because she won't run, only walk and it doesn't take as long to calm down.
