Things I Wish I'd Known: A Compassionate Guide for Parenting Neurodivergent Children

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Ian M Smith Laurie Edmans

Things I Wish I'd Known

Name: Things I Wish I'd Known
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ISBN: 9781918386158

A Compassionate Guide for Parenting Neurodivergent Children

Ian M Smith, Laurie Edmans, Barbara Schönhofer

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Tiwik Books
17 November 2025

Age groups: children; Child & developmental psychology; Family & relationships; Advice on parenting

Series: Tiwik Books

Things I Wish I'd Known is a compassionate guide for parents and carers of neurodivergent children. Written in clear, supportive British English, it blends lived experience with research-informed insight to help you understand behaviours, reduce overwhelm, and rebuild family confidence.

Instead of quick fixes, you get practical steps that work in real homes and real schools. The book reframes ""difficult"" as ""different"", puts connection before correction, and shows how to support regulation, communication, and learning without losing yourself in the process.

Inside you will find:

Plain-language explanations for common challenges, including meltdowns, masking, shutdowns, and sensory overload. What helps in the moment: scripts, phrases, and calm-down strategies you can use today. Routines that reduce friction, including transitions, sleep, mornings, and homework. School and system navigation in England: meetings, EHCP fundamentals, reasonable adjustments, and evidence you can bring. Cheat sheets, reflection prompts, and a gentle permission to slow everything down.

Who this book is for:

Parents and carers seeking clarity, confidence, and kinder routines at home. Families at any stage, with or without a formal diagnosis, including those waiting on CAMHS. Professionals who want an authentic parent perspective they can act on.

Why it helps:

You get practical guidance rooted in lived experience, a strengths-first mindset, and evidence-based principles woven through the TIWIK Books visual system. The result is calm, connection, and a shared plan you can keep using.

TIWIK Books(TM) publishes compassionate, evidence-based guides that help people think, feel, and grow with confidence. Learn more at tiwikbooks.com.

By: Ian M Smith
Preface by: Laurie Edmans, Barbara Schönhofer
Imprint: Tiwik Books
Volume: 1
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 381g
ISBN: 9781918386158
ISBN 10: 1918386153
Series: Tiwik Books
Pages: 282
Publication Date: 17 November 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ian M. Smith is the founder and custodian of the Institute for Relational Performatism. His work focuses on structural reasoning, governance design, and inquiry under relational and performative strain. His role in relation to this doctrine is custodial rather than interpretive.Ian M. Smith holds an MSc in Business and Strategic Leadership from Cranfield University, a Level 7 Senior Leader Apprenticeship. He has over two decades of experience leading complex, high-stakes transformation programmes across the UK and international insurance sector, including regulated transactions, operational transfers, and large-scale change where timing, governance, and stakeholder trust determine outcomes.His work focuses on how institutions generate misunderstanding under pressure, how harm becomes structurally normalised, and what leadership must do when environments cannot be simplified without breaking them. He writes in plain language, with a preference for operational clarity over abstraction, and with a deliberate emphasis on restraint, proportion, and ethical sequencing.