Georgie Wisen-Vincent

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 426: Georgie Wisen-Vincent on Unlocking Our Kids’ Emotional Balance and Resilience with The Way of Play · 28 Jan 2025 podcast

And I think what you're saying, Debbie, really touches on this idea that so much of what our kids bring us is coming from the bottom up.

And so, you know, the brain develops in a bottom-up direction, right?

The brainstem and the lower limbic system is wired up a lot sooner than the higher parts of the brain that would help our kids be able to slow down and think and reflect on what they're doing or even know what they're feeling in a moment.

And then when you also have like my kid or like many of our kids who also have challenges with bottom-up processing or the sensory processing of what

what they're taking in from the world can often feel like it's coming at them in all directions or it's coming at them way too fast for them to make sense of it.

They don't really know yet how to get organized and to direct the flow of information from what's coming at them from outside in the world to all of the places that it needs to go for them to be able to slow down and make

conscious decisions or even to communicate in whatever way they communicate with us about what's going on so we can understand and meet the need that might be underlying the behavior, right?

So just that's a little bit of the background on how bottom up

our kids sometimes expressions and behavior can be.

Which I know firsthand.

And part of what went into developing the strategy of dial intensity up and down is because that can look like our kids' intensity is either way too high and it's not matching the situation because it's way too intense for what's going on around them.

Or it might be way too low to match the situation.

So I'll give you two examples.

One is that your kid is like on the verge of a meltdown because you've been outside all day, it's really hot outside, they just want a popsicle, and there's all of the stimulation that it's really hard for them to be able to.

rein that in and just ask for the popsicle, let's say in a way that would sound polite, let's say.

Then you've got really low intensity that doesn't match the situation.

So low intensity would be like, I look kind of checked out, I look tired, there's fatigue involved, my body is slumped, or my core doesn't seem very strong at the moment.

I might even be like kind of hunched over in the chair or laying on the floor or something.

And in both cases, it looks like

You're not able to do the thing that I need you to do, or we've got to move.

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