Victoria Biggs
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238 appearances
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first heard Sep 2019
last heard Sep 2019
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So if I just pull um a couple of major strategies, I'd say tips for self confidence.
I'll give two tips for that, because self confidence is crux.
O of everything.
Um one thing I would say to parents of dyspraxic teenagers is don't be afraid um to show them that it's okay not to be perfect.
Show them that you're not good at things.
One of the most
encouraging things a friend ever did for me was take me along to the choir where she sang.
She was a terrible singer and she couldn't carry a tune in a bucket, but she loved it.
She used to go there and she used to sing and nothing was stopping her.
And just seeing someone be confident like that and enjoying themselves like that helped me to start to understand that you don't have to be good at something to be able to do it.
And I wish I'd understood that so much earlier on.
It would have given me more confidence in sports, in games, in all the things I do now that struggle at
For example, I love to swim, but I'm never going to be a great swimmer and then because of my coordination problems.
But I would have had much more confidence in trying different sorts of swimming if I'd known this earlier on, that it's okay not to be perfect.
And parents can be vital in sending that message to their teenagers, I think, just by being open about their own weaknesses.
Um the second thing I would say is just help teenagers to understand that
being differently, why it isn't something to be ashamed of.
There are all kinds of minds.
And sometimes I hear parents saying things like, Oh, I don't want to call my child dyspraxic because I don't want to label him or I don't want her to get saddled with a label that might have negative effects for her future and so on.
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