14 day pattern monitoring tool

You've been told to "keep a behaviour diary."

You lasted three days. You felt like you were building a case against your own child. And you were still no closer to knowing why Tuesday worked and Wednesday fell apart.

Here's what nobody explains: one difficult moment is a photograph. It shows you the loudest part of the day and none of the lead-up. It won't tell you whether it was the homework, the hunger, the noise, or the six transitions your child had already survived before you asked them to put their shoes on.

Two weeks of small, gentle notes turns photographs into a story.

The 14-Day Pattern Monitoring Tool is the same two-week process I use with my 1:1 families. Five minutes a night. Mostly tick boxes. And a section for what went WELL, because we're looking for what's already working — not just what's going wrong.

Most parents finish the fortnight and discover the "random" meltdowns were never random. They had the proof in their own handwriting the whole time.

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Domenica Soroka — Education & Disability Consultant. 28 years in education, MEd (Disabilities), former Assistant Principal, and mum to three neurodivergent kids.

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