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Embracing Diversity: The Benefits of Letting Neurodivergence Roam Free
A Wonderfully Wired premium member suggested I take a look at Adell Bridges’ instagram page attaching this post to tempt me… Not only was...
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Elle Leher
- Oct 14
- 1 min
How to have a collaborative, proactive discussion with your kid
Once you’ve identified one or two problems waiting to be solved that you want to intentionally collaborate on with your child, your next...
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Elle Leher
- Oct 12
- 1 min
Stop addressing behaviour in the heat of the moment and start planning your responses
When your child is explosive, reactive and has big frustration responses it can feel like they come ‘out of the blue’ or ‘without any...
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Elle Leher
- Oct 10
- 1 min
Shift away from solving your child's problems toward collaborating with her to solve them
The most common complaint Dr Greene hears from kids about their parents is, “They don’t listen to me.” The most common complaint he hear...
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Elle Leher
- Oct 7
- 1 min
Stop modifying behaviour and start solving the problems that cause that behaviour
Modifying behaviour doesn’t solve problems. When a child throws a tantrum, for example she communicates much to the parent ready to...
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Elle Leher
- Oct 5
- 1 min
Shift from thinking 'Kids do well if they want to' to 'Kids do well if they can
What do big frustration responses mean? If this child knew how important it is he would do better, I need to give him a good reason to...
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Elle Leher
- Oct 2
- 1 min
Introducing the CPS model
This month we are discussing a different way of seeing and responding to behaviour that doesn't meet our expectations in our children....
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Elle Leher
- Sep 26
- 3 min
Habituation:When it's important not to feel the clothes on your back
All month we’ve been discussing how babies and children learn self-regulation by the process of co-regulation from attuned, responsive...
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Elle Leher
- Sep 19
- 3 min
Co-regulation: the golden key to self-regulation
I’m learning that one of the most challenging things for Wonderfully Wired babies and children is self-regulation. All babies need to...
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Elle Leher
- Sep 12
- 4 min
You only have one job as a parent: To Become a Responsive one
I remember standing in the massive baby supply store 17 years ago, with a list so long it was partly concealed by my belly. I worked my...
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Elle Leher
- Sep 5
- 4 min
Repost: From BabySense to Brain Body parenting
I've been looking forward to this minute, when I can share my conversation with Meg Faure with you and really explore how responsive...
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Elle Leher
- Aug 29
- 4 min
Should we still teach writing to those with writing challenges?
As I write, my eldest sits and does online aptitude testing for career guidance. She reads the word based questions and I wonder if...
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Elle Leher
- Aug 22
- 3 min
How can teachers start helping Wonderfully Wired kids?
I’ve been thinking about teachers with empathy and concern. What would it take for teachers under pressure to deliver results to get a ...
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Elle Leher
- Aug 15
- 2 min
"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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Elle Leher
- Aug 8
- 3 min
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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Elle Leher
- Aug 1
- 3 min
"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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Elle Leher
- Jul 25
- 3 min
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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Elle Leher
- Jul 18
- 4 min
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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Elle Leher
- Jul 11
- 4 min
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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Elle Leher
- Jul 4
- 4 min
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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