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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
- 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 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
- Apr 25
- 3 min
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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Elle Leher
- Apr 18
- 5 min
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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Elle Leher
- Apr 11
- 4 min
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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Elle Leher
- Apr 4
- 3 min
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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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
- 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 1, 2022
- 5 min
How we found out our child is dyslexic (and why we didn't mind)
You’d be surprised how little training teachers receive in understanding dyslexia. Many teachers know some of the challenges that come...
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