#67 Dyslexic Holiday Hacks: Making Traditions Work for Your Family
December is here, and are you dreading the holiday season because of the stress of thank-you notes, letters to Santa, and required reading? Have you ever watched your dyslexic child struggle with a cherished family tradition and wondered how to make it genuinely joyful? This episode is your essential guide to transforming high-stress, reading-heavy Christmas and holiday activities into meaningful moments.
Today, we dive deep into practical, age-appropriate adaptations and you’ll learn how to curate solutions for all age groups, discover empowering cultural traditions from around the world, and get an immediate action plan to implement low-stress changes this week.
The secret to a truly magical season is adapting the tradition to fit your family’s strengths, not forcing your child to fit the tradition. Listen today and unlock new ways to create joyful, lasting memories for the whole family!
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Topics Covered:
- Creative and practical alternative solutions to address the most common holiday challenges that will ultimately work well for every member of your family [2:03]
- How to seamlessly curate age-appropriate adaptations for holiday activities across a wide range of age groups [3:38]
- A look at different cultural celebrations and how they offer unique opportunities for empowering and engaging adaptation and learning [5:15]
- An action plan you can use this week to confidently prepare and implement new or old family traditions that genuinely work for everyone, and reduce holiday stress [8:02]
Key Takeaways:
- Stop forcing traditions to fit your child; adapt traditions to fit how their brain works.
- The holiday season is the perfect time to lean into your dyslexic child's natural abilities.
- Traditions from other cultures teach us that the goal is shared story time and connection, not decoding struggles.
Links & Resources Mentioned:
#65 Beyond Phonics: The New Science of Reading Comprehension and What It Means for Dyslexic Students
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