Elaine Friend
speaker
557 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2020
last heard Jun 2020
Elaine Friend’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You take your child to the first day of preschool or kindergarten, and many of the children run in and start playing right away.
But this child, this sensitive child, stops in the doorway.
And pauses.
And the teacher might say, Oh, is he shy?
And the parent would say, No.
He's not shy.
He likes to get the lay of the land before he dives in.
So the child is standing in their doorway seeing what toys are where, which children are where and maybe they're smelling something cooking in the kitchen and
Wondering
What is that smell?
And they don't just say, Oh, something's cooking in their heads, they say
Is it sweet?
Is it lunch?
Am I going to get to have some?
Are we cooking today?
Oh, is that chocolate I smell?
Or maybe butter?
Maybe it's chicken soup.
They have to think about everything and it makes things a little slower.
When you
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