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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My eldest daughter recently found herself on the wrong side of offense when she was tasked to read a historical document on eugenics...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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Elle Leher
- Jun 27
- 4 min
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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Elle Leher
- Jun 20
- 3 min
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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Elle Leher
- Jun 13
- 4 min
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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Elle Leher
- Jun 1
- 4 min
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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Elle Leher
- May 23
- 3 min
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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Elle Leher
- May 16
- 4 min
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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Elle Leher
- May 9
- 2 min
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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Elle Leher
- May 3
- 2 min
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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