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aadegabi29
Mar 7, 20233 min read
Fight or flight from Paper Tigers: What Anxiety looks and feels like in your child
The therapist Dr Dan Peters, from the popular Parent Footprint podcast calls Anxiety a response to a PAPER TIGER. The part of the brain...
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aadegabi29
Feb 28, 20234 min read
It's time to redefine who is smart...just ask Moana
The more research I do, the more autobiographies of different thinkers I read and the more experts I interview, the more I’m...
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aadegabi29
Feb 21, 20234 min read
Dyslexics have what the work place needs
There is good news for those who find basic skills hard: “Basic skills have no market value.” Norbert Weiner, author of Cybernetics said...
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aadegabi29
Feb 14, 20234 min read
Autistics and Dyslexics make good spies
“I’m often looking through a lot of data and I find that my dyslexia helps me to see the bigger picture and spot patterns that aren’t...
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aadegabi29
Dec 26, 20226 min read
Are you and your partner on the same parenting page?
We were outside by the fire enjoying cooking a slow Sunday meal. The kids were still little and I could hear the familiar sound of...
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aadegabi29
Dec 19, 20224 min read
Moving away from worry that our children are 'not normal' toward respecting their differences
Two names in education worth knowing (and dropping): Charlotte Mason Some years ago, while figuring out my homeschooling rhythm, I read a...
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aadegabi29
Dec 12, 20225 min read
People think I could be a better parent
I used to feel entitled to judge other people’s parenting. In fact, a person doesn't even have to be a parent to watch a kid have an...
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aadegabi29
Dec 5, 20224 min read
How to move forward from what you thought parenting 'should' look like
I read the first part of Debbie Reber’s book, Differently Wired - Raising an exceptional child in a conventional world and bristled....
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aadegabi29
Nov 14, 20226 min read
An economic reason for offering dyslexic students classroom accommodations
Imagine a restaurant does a survey revealing that 20 % of its clients are not enjoying the current menu. The business owners don’t...
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aadegabi29
Oct 17, 20226 min read
Why your gifted child might be misdiagnosed
What if your son has been prescribed medicine for a disorder but his “disorder” is in fact giftedness? What if his giftedness is seen as...
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