Dr. Adele Lafrance
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259 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jun 2020
last heard Jun 2020
Dr. Adele Lafrance’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I wish I would be doing other things.
And so from there, building a bridge, we would then want to put it into words.
And some parents and caregivers, even professionals, are hesitant to put into words some of those ideas in case it reinforces in the child a dislike for reading or academics in general.
So that's one of the kind of myths that is still alive and well in our culture, that if we put things into words, it can make them true, make them worse, or make them sticky.
But what the neuroscience shows is that if you put into words your child's experience and you do it with sincerity, you know, with heart, by speaking what's going on inside, it actually calms the emotional center of the brain.
So the idea of feeling heard works because the brain registers that experience and says, okay, we can cool our jets now.
We can calm down.
The environment cures us.
So we've built a bridge.
We imagine why it is that a kid might not want to read.
We put it into words.
And I use a pretty specific script to help parents get their feet under them.
So it would sound like this.
I can understand why you would not want to read today because reading is not one of your favorite things to do.
And because some of those books just don't reflect your interests.
And because...
I know that other kids are reading at a level 24 and you're reading at a level 16 right now.
And that probably doesn't feel good either.
Just making those three statements can do wonders to bring down the activation in the limbic system and the emotional center of the brain.
It's almost bizarre at times to see the effect.
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