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aadegabi29
Aug 15, 20232 min read
"Reading isn’t voting!" Julie Bogart
My eldest daughter recently found herself on the wrong side of offense when she was tasked to read a historical document on eugenics...
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aadegabi29
Aug 8, 20233 min read
Why AI is a good thing for wonderfully wired different thinkers
My son wrote a life- science exam consisting of questions that test ‘60% recall of content taught, and 40% higher level thinking’. The...
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aadegabi29
Aug 1, 20233 min read
"There are no educational emergencies", Julie Bogart
My husband says all disappointments are a result of unmet expectations. That’s a good sentiment when it comes to managing my expectations...
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aadegabi29
Jul 25, 20233 min read
Learn to set an exam study schedule
Confession time: I used to love setting an exam study schedule. I used to think it was the dorky combination of coloured markers and...
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aadegabi29
Jul 18, 20234 min read
Four steps to Studying from (or Translating) a Textbook
When I was a teenager, a very good English teacher told me that the only way to study Shakespeare is to acknowledge that he spoke a...
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aadegabi29
Jul 11, 20234 min read
10 Things you should know to hack teen parenting
My mother used to have a sticker on her Red Volkswagen van in which she transported four teenagers to 3 different schools: It read:...
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aadegabi29
Jul 4, 20234 min read
I'm not a tutor!
I’m working on changing the way I think of my role as a parent into the teenage years for my struggling student: I’m not aiming to be...
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aadegabi29
Jun 27, 20234 min read
From BabySense to Brain Body parenting
When I was a newborn mum the question was always ‘to routine or not to routine’. Around the same coffee table was my Zimbabwean pastor...
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aadegabi29
Jun 20, 20233 min read
The just right challenge
It is critical to be able to read a child’s emotional platform to know how to help that child back to a stable, safe, state in the...
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aadegabi29
Jun 13, 20234 min read
Can co-regulation teach self-regulation?
“A child who is self-regulated can wait a few minutes if dinner is late, concentrate on homework even if they want to go outside and...
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aadegabi29
Jun 1, 20234 min read
Understanding your child's behaviour by reading the state of the brain-body connection
This month, Wonderfully Wired dives deeply (and satisfyingly!) into the work of Dr Mona Delahooke. You can find a brief introduction to...
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aadegabi29
May 23, 20233 min read
Shift away from tutoring content to coaching skills
On my mission to help my son Judah through this tricky period in his schooling I reach for the work of Dr Jeanine Jannot. Dr Jeanine...
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aadegabi29
May 16, 20234 min read
Dear Julie Bogart,
In Season Two of the Wonderfully Wired podcast, we dive deeper into parenting and teaching children who think and learn differently. ...
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aadegabi29
May 9, 20232 min read
Rethinking behaviour with Mona Delahooke
Your Wonderfully Wired child might have a diagnosis like ADHD or dyslexia or you just know he is DIFFERENT: he doesn't behave like other...
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aadegabi29
May 3, 20232 min read
The season's change
April brought us to the end of the first Season of the Wonderfully Wired podcast and 7 months of content, to inform the way you parent...
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aadegabi29
Apr 25, 20233 min read
Parents: no longer on the outside of education
“I feel like you're parenting us parents,” I said to Heather Wells in this month’s episode of the podcast. Heather and I were talking...
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aadegabi29
Apr 18, 20235 min read
Teachers are farmers, not factory workers
“The core role of a teacher is facilitating learning… but much of what teachers are expected to do is something other than teaching.”...
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aadegabi29
Apr 11, 20234 min read
Children are natural born learners
Last week we suggested changing our metaphor for schools: Instead of seeing schools as factories and students as products on a conveyor...
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aadegabi29
Apr 4, 20233 min read
Schools are farms not factories
Ever wondered why our schools look the way they do? Why do children go to school in groups of others their own age? Why are days divided...
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aadegabi29
Mar 28, 20233 min read
What is OCD anyway?
A friend is explaining his preferred way of eating gummies. He sorts them out by colour and (he insists) flavour and works his way from...
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