Amanda Morin
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first heard Aug 2016
last heard Jul 2025
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I've written a number of books on education and special education.
And I'm an expert and writer for understood.org, which is a project of the National Center for Learning Disabilities for parents of kids with learning and attention issues, which is sort of in that differently wired bucket.
an interesting question in part for because for my two kids who are differently wired, summer is the trickier time for them than back to school.
But I think it's for the same reasons that kids have anxiety about back to school for them.
It's the transition to the unknown.
And for my kids, school has that predictable routine that they look forward to and summer doesn't, which may say more about how I handle summer
anything else.
But, you know, for other kids, that school routine is it's so fraught with what they feel like opportunities for failure, which makes me sad to say out loud.
But I think that's it.
There's new teachers, new classmates, new schedules, like in all these new demands, which is like a ton to prepare for and absorb.
Right.
It's not a place they always feel most confident in.
You know, these are kids who are working hard not only to get through the work and the social demands of the day and navigate the new spaces, but they're not always bailed out, those expectations and those new demands.
And I think it's easy to forget that differently wired kids, they may be putting in twice as much work for the same payoff as other kids are.
And that's anxiety provoking in a lot of ways.
And exhausting, I think, too.
I think that we call that a medication vacation, which I just like saying out loud.
Just as much as an unsettledness, I like medication vacation.
I think, yeah, I think that there are parents and kids who do take that time off during the summer from taking medication.
And so there's always a little trepidation about starting it back up again, not only because that may be something kids have to take at school.
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