Dr. Karen Wilson
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835 appearances
3 recordings
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first heard Jan 2020
last heard Apr 2025
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I'm sharing both sides when we're sharing that information with kids.
to.
And I probably don't adhere to a strict ratio because then you have people like keeping tabs, you know, and I think that can be distracting.
But I think that it's easier to see the weaknesses sometimes because you see the struggle and then we have an emotional response.
To a child struggling.
You know, when a child is at home and they're really struggling through the homework, we're empathetic and we feel for that child.
And it's easy to kind of focus on, wow, my child is really struggling with reading.
He can't read.
And then we get so focused on the weakness that we don't see that your child is exceptional at math or just a great human being and is well liked by their peers.
and is such a great steward and social justice advocate, you have to be able to see both sides.
And not all of their strengths are going to be academic.
And we have to kind of shift our way of thinking to say, maybe a lot of aspects of school are hard for my child.
But they have strengths also.
that are non academic, that are equally important.
And we need to pay attention to those in the same way we pay attention and give support for the areas of weakness.
So we have to give
children, adolescents, an opportunity to take a deep dive into their areas of interest and their areas of strengths, but also provide support for their weaknesses at the same time.
Right.
And I think it's understanding a child's strengths.
And we know that children can use their strengths to compensate for areas of weakness.
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