MyDragonLibrary
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Techy mom creating fun, on & off-screen resources for daily reading, writing and spelling practice.
A brief break in book updates and worksheet work... due to Cradle inspired cake activities 😅 Orthos & Little Blue
November 16, 2025 at 1:05 AM
A brief break in book updates and worksheet work... due to Cradle inspired cake activities 😅 Orthos & Little Blue
✨Book Progress✨ Experimenting with a multilingual activity.
Two things I'm looking at: 🧵
Two things I'm looking at: 🧵
November 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
✨Book Progress✨ Experimenting with a multilingual activity.
Two things I'm looking at: 🧵
Two things I'm looking at: 🧵
Fellow dyslexia/AuDHD people/parents what are some good accounts to follow for tips and laughs?
One thing I struggle with is the content gap between the preschool and teen/adult ages. We’ve got the basic phonics down, and reading is fine(-ish). Need more tips for spelling and focus for a 9yo…
One thing I struggle with is the content gap between the preschool and teen/adult ages. We’ve got the basic phonics down, and reading is fine(-ish). Need more tips for spelling and focus for a 9yo…
November 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Fellow dyslexia/AuDHD people/parents what are some good accounts to follow for tips and laughs?
One thing I struggle with is the content gap between the preschool and teen/adult ages. We’ve got the basic phonics down, and reading is fine(-ish). Need more tips for spelling and focus for a 9yo…
One thing I struggle with is the content gap between the preschool and teen/adult ages. We’ve got the basic phonics down, and reading is fine(-ish). Need more tips for spelling and focus for a 9yo…
I used to panic that my dyslexic child would never love books the way I do.
He loved being read to — chapter books, bedtime stories, anything.
But when it came to him reading? He’d do anything to avoid it. 🧵
He loved being read to — chapter books, bedtime stories, anything.
But when it came to him reading? He’d do anything to avoid it. 🧵
November 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I used to panic that my dyslexic child would never love books the way I do.
He loved being read to — chapter books, bedtime stories, anything.
But when it came to him reading? He’d do anything to avoid it. 🧵
He loved being read to — chapter books, bedtime stories, anything.
But when it came to him reading? He’d do anything to avoid it. 🧵
Book progress update! ✨
I’ve finally cleaned up the word cloud activity enough to release it. We tested the “colour the correct spelling” version today. The kids loved hunting for the right Monday.
I’ve finally cleaned up the word cloud activity enough to release it. We tested the “colour the correct spelling” version today. The kids loved hunting for the right Monday.
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Book progress update! ✨
I’ve finally cleaned up the word cloud activity enough to release it. We tested the “colour the correct spelling” version today. The kids loved hunting for the right Monday.
I’ve finally cleaned up the word cloud activity enough to release it. We tested the “colour the correct spelling” version today. The kids loved hunting for the right Monday.
Here’s my step-by-step process for making spelling a 15-minute daily habit.
If you’re trying to fit practice into real life:
Step 1: Pick one set time (e.g. before dinner).
Step 2: Keep materials ready — no setup faff.
Step 3: Use one or two short, engaging worksheets.
If you’re trying to fit practice into real life:
Step 1: Pick one set time (e.g. before dinner).
Step 2: Keep materials ready — no setup faff.
Step 3: Use one or two short, engaging worksheets.
November 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Here’s my step-by-step process for making spelling a 15-minute daily habit.
If you’re trying to fit practice into real life:
Step 1: Pick one set time (e.g. before dinner).
Step 2: Keep materials ready — no setup faff.
Step 3: Use one or two short, engaging worksheets.
If you’re trying to fit practice into real life:
Step 1: Pick one set time (e.g. before dinner).
Step 2: Keep materials ready — no setup faff.
Step 3: Use one or two short, engaging worksheets.
I need your help.
What's your best tips for building curiosity and internal motivation in children?
What's your best tips for building curiosity and internal motivation in children?
November 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I need your help.
What's your best tips for building curiosity and internal motivation in children?
What's your best tips for building curiosity and internal motivation in children?
I kept hearing, “Don’t worry, he’ll catch up.” But my gut said something was off.
It's hard not to second guess yourself with your first child.
It's hard not to second guess yourself with your first child.
November 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I kept hearing, “Don’t worry, he’ll catch up.” But my gut said something was off.
It's hard not to second guess yourself with your first child.
It's hard not to second guess yourself with your first child.
This month I'm writing not one, but TWO books! 📚
Normally I join #NaNoWriMo, but this year I’m swapping word count for page count.
Here’s what I’m creating 🧵
Normally I join #NaNoWriMo, but this year I’m swapping word count for page count.
Here’s what I’m creating 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This month I'm writing not one, but TWO books! 📚
Normally I join #NaNoWriMo, but this year I’m swapping word count for page count.
Here’s what I’m creating 🧵
Normally I join #NaNoWriMo, but this year I’m swapping word count for page count.
Here’s what I’m creating 🧵
This book will be tested on children 🥼 ;)
I’m designing my first dyslexia-friendly activity book. Here’s a sneak peek at the cover in progress and the tools I plan to use 🧵
I’m designing my first dyslexia-friendly activity book. Here’s a sneak peek at the cover in progress and the tools I plan to use 🧵
November 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This book will be tested on children 🥼 ;)
I’m designing my first dyslexia-friendly activity book. Here’s a sneak peek at the cover in progress and the tools I plan to use 🧵
I’m designing my first dyslexia-friendly activity book. Here’s a sneak peek at the cover in progress and the tools I plan to use 🧵
Need to reset or recharge? Here’s my go-to playlist for work and, well chilling :D open.spotify.com/playlist/37i...
Chill Mix
Playlist · Spotify · 50 items
open.spotify.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Need to reset or recharge? Here’s my go-to playlist for work and, well chilling :D open.spotify.com/playlist/37i...
Here are 5 things scarier than 👻 ghosting your projects:
1. Spending hours making the “perfect” worksheet no one uses
2. Waiting for the right time that never comes
3. Letting comparison stop you from experimenting
4. Forgetting that kids learn through messy tries
5. Mistaking activity for progress
1. Spending hours making the “perfect” worksheet no one uses
2. Waiting for the right time that never comes
3. Letting comparison stop you from experimenting
4. Forgetting that kids learn through messy tries
5. Mistaking activity for progress
November 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Here are 5 things scarier than 👻 ghosting your projects:
1. Spending hours making the “perfect” worksheet no one uses
2. Waiting for the right time that never comes
3. Letting comparison stop you from experimenting
4. Forgetting that kids learn through messy tries
5. Mistaking activity for progress
1. Spending hours making the “perfect” worksheet no one uses
2. Waiting for the right time that never comes
3. Letting comparison stop you from experimenting
4. Forgetting that kids learn through messy tries
5. Mistaking activity for progress
3 ways to avoid ghosting your goals:
1. Have a plan - for us it is having the rule of homework before screen time
2. Have a backup to your plan - well, it's half term here, so there might have been some pre-homework screen time
1. Have a plan - for us it is having the rule of homework before screen time
2. Have a backup to your plan - well, it's half term here, so there might have been some pre-homework screen time
November 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
3 ways to avoid ghosting your goals:
1. Have a plan - for us it is having the rule of homework before screen time
2. Have a backup to your plan - well, it's half term here, so there might have been some pre-homework screen time
1. Have a plan - for us it is having the rule of homework before screen time
2. Have a backup to your plan - well, it's half term here, so there might have been some pre-homework screen time
I stopped sharing my daily worksheets.
Here’s why 👇
Here’s why 👇
November 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I stopped sharing my daily worksheets.
Here’s why 👇
Here’s why 👇
Here’s how I’m avoiding ghosting this month:
Step 1: Sign up for Buffer’s social media challenge
Step 2: Realise most prompts expect you to have things figured out
Step 3: Panic about not having anything to sell or a magic solution to everyone’s problems
Step 1: Sign up for Buffer’s social media challenge
Step 2: Realise most prompts expect you to have things figured out
Step 3: Panic about not having anything to sell or a magic solution to everyone’s problems
October 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Here’s how I’m avoiding ghosting this month:
Step 1: Sign up for Buffer’s social media challenge
Step 2: Realise most prompts expect you to have things figured out
Step 3: Panic about not having anything to sell or a magic solution to everyone’s problems
Step 1: Sign up for Buffer’s social media challenge
Step 2: Realise most prompts expect you to have things figured out
Step 3: Panic about not having anything to sell or a magic solution to everyone’s problems
😍
October 29, 2025 at 8:27 AM
😍
When kids are in the other room, what’s scarier:
👻 silence
😱 indiscernible shrieking (maybe they are happy, maybe they are about to murder each other...)
Curious where you stand - which one puts you more on edge?
👻 silence
😱 indiscernible shrieking (maybe they are happy, maybe they are about to murder each other...)
Curious where you stand - which one puts you more on edge?
October 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
When kids are in the other room, what’s scarier:
👻 silence
😱 indiscernible shrieking (maybe they are happy, maybe they are about to murder each other...)
Curious where you stand - which one puts you more on edge?
👻 silence
😱 indiscernible shrieking (maybe they are happy, maybe they are about to murder each other...)
Curious where you stand - which one puts you more on edge?
Mornings... ah, the bane of my life... Didn't like them before having kids, like them even less now. So it felt like a double curse when we discovered that ironically one of the best times for doing homework was... you guessed it morning!
October 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Mornings... ah, the bane of my life... Didn't like them before having kids, like them even less now. So it felt like a double curse when we discovered that ironically one of the best times for doing homework was... you guessed it morning!
I often wish I had a good weekly routine. But it’s not easy with school pickups and after school clubs. Nearly every day is different (including lunch time decided by my OH’s meeting schedule). Since having kids I’ve been working 3 days a week to make this chaos work.
October 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I often wish I had a good weekly routine. But it’s not easy with school pickups and after school clubs. Nearly every day is different (including lunch time decided by my OH’s meeting schedule). Since having kids I’ve been working 3 days a week to make this chaos work.
If you’ve been stuck trying to get your kids to practice handwriting and it’s not working, you’re not alone.
I recommend 1) separating writing practice from spelling activities 2) using proper guide lines for their skill level.
I recommend 1) separating writing practice from spelling activities 2) using proper guide lines for their skill level.
October 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
If you’ve been stuck trying to get your kids to practice handwriting and it’s not working, you’re not alone.
I recommend 1) separating writing practice from spelling activities 2) using proper guide lines for their skill level.
I recommend 1) separating writing practice from spelling activities 2) using proper guide lines for their skill level.
I made a weekly workbook for my kids this week. Ask me anything 😄
October 24, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I made a weekly workbook for my kids this week. Ask me anything 😄
I was going to write about what I’d do if I had to start again from scratch, but both parenting and the MDL site are still a work in progress. It’s also hard to detach some lessons learned from the experience that brought them about. But here’s a few things I wish I had done earlier:
October 23, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I was going to write about what I’d do if I had to start again from scratch, but both parenting and the MDL site are still a work in progress. It’s also hard to detach some lessons learned from the experience that brought them about. But here’s a few things I wish I had done earlier:
One thing I’m quite proud of as a parent is the love for stories we managed to spark in our children. And I say STORIES as for a while the struggles with reading with dyslexia had me worried we will lose the childhood joy of books.
October 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
One thing I’m quite proud of as a parent is the love for stories we managed to spark in our children. And I say STORIES as for a while the struggles with reading with dyslexia had me worried we will lose the childhood joy of books.
I’ve been working on various activities for the site for a while. But I kept chasing perfection. I’ll just test it a bit more, iterate a few more times, then it will be perfect and it will fix all my edu-parenting problems…
October 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I’ve been working on various activities for the site for a while. But I kept chasing perfection. I’ll just test it a bit more, iterate a few more times, then it will be perfect and it will fix all my edu-parenting problems…
A glimpse of the dragon cave… erm, my office. When I’m there I can disconnect from the household clutter, chores and just focus. It’s far from the kitchen too, so no snacking distractions 😂
What’s your workspace like?
What’s your workspace like?
October 20, 2025 at 9:53 AM
A glimpse of the dragon cave… erm, my office. When I’m there I can disconnect from the household clutter, chores and just focus. It’s far from the kitchen too, so no snacking distractions 😂
What’s your workspace like?
What’s your workspace like?