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Gilly Maddison


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Although I write mainly about crafts and all the other random things I do instead of housework, there is a more serious side to my writing.
For many years, after leaving a career in photojournalism, I studied to work with children needing help to understand their emotions. The work I did involved writing stories for children to help them understand specific issues in a non-threatening way. These social stories have always been private to the individual children and their families. For the first time, I have published one of the stories. It was written for a very sensitive child who amazed my with his approach to life. As always, there was nothing wrong with the child, just an issue with the appropriate time and place for his behaviour. The one thing I have learnt from the children I have worked with is that seemingly 'abnormal' behaviour is actually, on deeper investigation, a perfectly normal response to a confusing, sometimes scary world. Afterall, all behaviour is communication.

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