Practices

Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.

Narrowed down

4 practices

Reading, numbers and learning differences Struggling right now Involves someone else Clear all

How long you have

Five minutes 3 Twenty minutes 1

Who it is written for

A practitioner 4 Someone I care about 4

Where you are right now · Struggling right now

Struggling right now 4 Coping, mostly 2

On your own, or with someone · Involves someone else

Both of us together 5 Involves someone else 4 On my own 2

Theme · Reading, numbers and learning differences

Screens and attention 13 The cost of avoiding 11 Medication and how it works 8 What ADHD actually is 5 Systems for daily life 5 Grounding and settling 4 Reading, numbers and learning differences 4 What worry does 4 Breaking the worry loop 4 Remembering to do it 3 Feelings and focus 3 What anger actually is 3 Your nervous system 3 Posture and how you carry yourself 3 Treatment and medication 3 Getting assessed and diagnosed 2 Emotions as signals 2 Moving your body 2 Shame and stigma 2 Structure and routine 2 The moment before you snap 2 Touch and bodywork 2 Treatment and medication 1 Shame 1 Your sense of time 1 Rest and pacing 1 Practising under provocation 1 Exercise, food and other supports 1 Obsessions and compulsions 1 When you go numb 1 Get started 1 Feeling from the inside 1 Growing empathy 1 Food, caffeine and fuel 1 When you use something to cope 1 Cool the body first 1 Choosing your response 1 Bringing the future closer 1

When

Any ordinary day 3 Under stress 1

When a child keeps failing at a task, try reducing what it demands of attention and memory before you increase the practice. Shorter steps, one instruction at a time, the working written down where they can see it.

Attention, holding things in mind and switching between steps all set a ceiling on how much of a lesson gets through. You cannot easily raise that…

Five minutesReading, numbers and learning differencesCoreQur’an 2:286

Pouring more in does not help while the lid is still on. A child who is exhausted, wound up or not yet settled will keep very little of the lesson, however good the lesson is.

Do the settling first, even when it costs ten minutes of the hour. Sleep, food, movement and a calm start look like the soft part of the day and they…

Five minutesReading, numbers and learning differencesCoreQur’an 20:114

A child who talks well, listens well and seems bright will have their reading failure read as laziness. The strengths are exactly what makes the blame stick.

Strong spoken language, decent attention and an easy manner give an impression of capability that nobody can square with work coming back unfinished.…

Five minutesReading, numbers and learning differencesCoreQur’an 49:11

If a parent has been saying since the first year of school that something is wrong with their child's reading, start from the assumption that they are right. They have watched more of it than anyone else has.

The usual story is years of being told the child is fine, a little behind, will catch up, and then a diagnosis at nine or ten when the easiest years…

Twenty minutesReading, numbers and learning differencesCoreQur’an 80:3

Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.