4 Steps to beating anxious thoughts
Wisdom says you can’t feel your way to good thoughts but you can think your way to good feelings. Let me illustrate. Imagine I have a...
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Elle Leher
- Mar 14
- 3 min
How to change the way your family talks about anxiety
Of all the Wonderful insights and useful tips I’ve learned from Natasha Daniels about anxiety so far, this one has been the most pivotal:...
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Elle Leher
- Mar 7
- 3 min
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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Elle Leher
- Feb 28
- 4 min
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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Elle Leher
- Feb 21
- 4 min
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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Elle Leher
- Feb 14
- 4 min
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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Elle Leher
- Feb 7
- 3 min
Why parents of diverse thinkers need hope restored... and how success stories restores that hope
I really liked Thomas West, author of Seeing What Others Cannot See: The Hidden Advantages of Visual Thinkers and Differently Wired Brains...
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Elle Leher
- Jan 31
- 2 min
Why you want to tune in to Wonderfully Wired this February
During the first recording of February’s ReadbyElle summary I made a pretty crucial error. The book I summarized for you was written by a...
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Elle Leher
- Jan 24
- 5 min
Why reading is so hard for dyslexic readers
Let’s talk about reading. What does learning to read really involve and what can a parent do to help a dyslexic son or daughter become a...
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Elle Leher
- Jan 17
- 5 min
My son is slow...and slow is good
My name is Eloise and I have a slow son. There it is, I said it. I can’t tell you exactly when I first noticed this fact. Perhaps it was...
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Elle Leher
- Jan 10
- 4 min
What schools should be saying to struggling dyslexic students
At least 1 out of every five kids is dyslexic. But like you, I don’t think about my son as an abstract statistic. I think more like a...
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Elle Leher
- Jan 3
- 1 min
What are the M.I.N.D strengths of dyslexia?
We kick off this month's content with a video I recorded a couple of years ago for teachers in my community that summarises the M.I.N.D...
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Elle Leher
- Dec 27, 2022
- 6 min
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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Elle Leher
- Dec 20, 2022
- 4 min
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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Elle Leher
- Dec 13, 2022
- 5 min
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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Elle Leher
- Dec 6, 2022
- 4 min
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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Elle Leher
- Nov 29, 2022
- 2 min
Ten Ways to change the way your family feels about the Dyslexia Label
Understand the benefits of dyslexia by learning the MIND strengths of dyslexia for yourself. (Watch the book summary of The Dyslexic...
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Elle Leher
- Nov 22, 2022
- 4 min
Three amazing Dyslexic strengths that take time to form and One benefit of finding school hard
It’s tempting to think your dyslexic child’s current challenges will always be weaknesses. But the research indicates something else. At...
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Elle Leher
- Nov 15, 2022
- 6 min
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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Elle Leher
- Nov 8, 2022
- 4 min
Three keys to unlocking dyslexic strengths
It’s the first time I facilitate an online programme of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Course offered by NoticeAbility.org, day one...
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