Amanda Morin

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2,385 appearances 9 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2016 last heard Jul 2025

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And I think that that's key is making sure you know who that person your child will go to.

If you're not the person they're available for them, who can they go to?

And just one person makes a big difference.

And sometimes when your child's switching schools, it may even be a teacher from the old school.

That sounded funny, from old school.

Your teacher from the old school who can help introduce your child to somebody at the new school who's sort of similar to them.

And the

Sure.

And I think the first thing that I want to like note is that we have self-advocacy scripts on Understood that I've helped to put together and write.

Because sometimes in the moment, a child may go blank and they may not remember what it is you've practiced with them.

So we have some of those sort of cheat sheet,

it is.

But I also, it's critical for me to say that I think self-advocacy, and I think you're saying this too,

is a skill that every kid should learn no matter what the circumstances of their lives, right?

So hopefully, in my eyes, it's that part of raising responsible, confident humans who know that they're ready to take on the world.

And because of that, I don't always see it as a skill that should sort of solely be taught to our kids, our in quotation marks, of course, you know.

And I think in some ways, it's part of an ongoing conversation in general about how do you talk to people about who you are?

what you need, what you feel good about, what you'd like to improve.

And I think that really clearly one of the things is it's modeling as parents by doing this out loud self-talk kind of sharing about our days.

So for example, oh rats, I totally forgot to write down the shopping list.

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