Maria Kennedy
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439 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2022
last heard Mar 2022
Maria Kennedy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And one of the things that I have said to parents when their kids come is your child is not broken.
It is not my job to fix your child because your child is not broken.
Child is just not understood.
And that's where we have to start.
We have to start by understanding.
And so, because of that lack of understanding of those two tiers, um, Susan talks about our kids being blue and yellow at the same time.
So, because they have the GIF and because they have an area of challenge, they hit two completely different.
Different places and those entities have been separate for forever, but our two e population actually combine both the gift and their challenge, and people need to be able to recognize that just because the child, my one of my favorites is just because the child may talk a lot and may give you contrary.
Arguments or reasoning, right, for something when you present something, they're not necessarily being argumentative.
Being able to debate is actually a skill.
And maybe if we could be more open to looking at what we have deemed first to be negative behaviors, if we could stop looking at them solely as negative behaviors and start looking at them as skills.
So, does this child come with a skill for conversation?
Does this child come with the skill for thinking and being able to give justifications and reasons, right?
So they're able to debate, they're able to speak.
Maybe they're good orators, right?
Maybe they can look at something and see what's wrong with it.
Maybe this is a skill and so.
Let's not just instantly jump to the conclusion that this child is badly behaved because they don't fit your particular perception of what an eight-year-old is supposed to do.
I mean, I've got eight and nine-year-olds who hold full-on conversations with adults, know stuff that I didn't even learn when I was in high school, had to wait till I got to college to discuss these things, can hold full-on.
Conversations and then later on can throw a temperatantrum like a two-year-old, right?
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