Dr. Adele Lafrance
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first heard Jun 2020
last heard Jun 2020
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When we look at the way we're conditioned in at least North American culture, for sure in other countries as well, but when a child is upset, we're conditioned to either offer reassurance, redirection or problem solving as a first step.
And so naturally, things are going to escalate and blow up in those toughest moments.
Because when you lead with reassurance, or distraction or redirection or problem solving, when emotions are high, it can actually make things worse.
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So I'm a psychologist.
I'm originally from Canada and now living, working, practicing in the United States and
I have a history of researching emotion and family-based healing for a number of years.
So yeah, this book is basically the fruit of many years of putting together tips, tricks, scripts for parents who I've met in different contexts who were looking for some concrete strategies to kind of get through the toughest moments at home.
Thanks.
So I've worked as a psychologist for over a decade now and mostly with parents of kids
who were struggling in one way or another.
So I've worked in the school system and pediatric rehab and hospital settings and mental health.
And I would try to distill the best of the neuroscience that I was learning into simple tricks so that parents could bring more calm to the home environment.
And over and over again, they would say that they'd wish someone had taught them these strategies long before, or even in the,
Actual sessions, they would ask me to write down what you just said.
Can you just write that down?
And so we thought, okay, we actually need to write a book with all of these things that we write down so often for parents in need because they really work.
And they don't work all of the time.
They don't bring the situation from total chaos to total calm.
But...
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