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Unread 08-10-2008, 03:39 PM
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Default Independance and reassurance

12 - 16 are ages where it might be good to have an ongoing policy to promote showing what's available - what out of school provision there is for groups, clubs & play - career choices, places to study/work, opportunities and pathways. Opportunities for them to show how Parents support their decisions and how their present skills & interests fit certain job descriptions/criteria in the 'here & now and how they have every opportunity to build on them later .. maybe altering what they'd like to consider/pursue... that no opportunity missed is a great deal as there are always other ways of doing things !!

Benefits and money - Housing and accomodation.

Resources, toys and games that help promote leaving or staying at home. What home means and how a new home might reflect that ..

The other area of promoting leaving home is supporting the very very scary & can be real fear of leaving everything familiar behind. Making sure everyone always knows where to go for reassurance and where/when necessary for help, possibly guidance is good promotion for issues of leaving home ..

The EMA seems to feature quite largely in our lives at present, along with searches for information on Colleges, 6th form courses ..

As a reflective account possibly use your own personal experiences of what leaving home may of meant at 12 years old - and how you'd feel about it again at 13, 14, 15 and 16 ... not sure that helps but sometimes linking personal experiences can help with where to look for information ..

Hth

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