Adrianne Meldrum

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 119: Adrianne Meldrum on Dealing with Math Struggles Faced by Differently Wired Kids · 31 Jul 2018 podcast

First and foremost, you have to accept that you can't change what your child's going through right then.

They're having that physical sensation, right?

Fight or flight.

Math is threatening my life right now and I hate it.

I hate its guts and I'm gonna run away from it.

And we have to remember too that all learning is processed emotionally first.

So if you come in hot and heavy like, hey, we're gonna get in here, we're gonna get this done, they're you're gonna get a lot of resistance because they're feeling threatened already and you're

intensity doesn't help the situation.

And so you gotta keep yourself calm and neutral.

And um Michelle Eicherd, she wrote this book called, oh gosh, the the name's escaping me on the spot.

Um, I'll think of it.

But she talks about the neutral face.

You when you're twelve, you have this inability of reading facial expressions correctly.

It's all gone because the front part of your brain is under construction.

They're looking at you, and your curiosity or frustration with the problem, with the problem, not the child, comes through, and your child thinks they're angry at me.

They hate my guts.

And so they're emotionally processing all this information, and homework just explodes on you because you were seriously curious about how to solve this problem.

Or why did the teacher pick this way?

I'm not really sure.

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