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What We Listened to
The Slow Parenting movement has rapidly gained popularity in recent years. Danielle Sullivan talked about slow processing and trying slow parenting on her Neurodiverging podcast.
Her family struggles with intermittent slow processing speed. She tried different kinds of parenting styles and she found slow parenting, the parenting approach that supports slower processing speeds.
Excerpt:
“The idea with slow parenting is to try to create more space and more time in the day for your child to process the world at their own pace, and to decrease the number of other things they have to do that will take away from their focus on processing. We just talked about how many of our children are overwhelmed, without enough time or space to think. Slow parenting creates this time and space for them.”
This Week’s Article
Helper of the Week
Marissa Ahern, LMSW, is an EMDR-trained therapist who works alongside individuals as they integrate trauma into their life’s narrative, cope with anxiety and navigate relationships. Specialize in working with people who struggle with anxiety, have survived a traumatic experience and/or have difficulty navigating relationships.And, as always, please give us feedback on Twitter. Which topic above is your favorite? What do you want more or less of? Other suggestions? Please let us know. Just send a tweet to @themonkeymashup and put #themondaymashup at the end so we can find it.
Have a wonderful week, all.
Much love to you and your family,
The Monkey Mashup Staff
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