A life of Flexibility
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Welcome to Bend or Break, home of Parenting The Extraordinary and The Thought Wrangler blogs.
Bend or Break is a place of learning, growth, healing and thriving.
What is Neurodiversity?
It’s a variation in the human brain regarding sociability, learning, attention, mood and other mental functions in a non-pathological sense. It covers everything from ADHD, High Functioning Autism (Asperger’s) and Giftedness, to learning disorders like Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and Auditory Processing. These differences result in issues which, when left unaddressed or mishandled, can lead to behavior challenges, anxiety and/or depression.
What is Bend or Break?
Here you will find practical insights and ideas based on real life experiences and in-depth study with a fresh approach to problems in new and nontraditional ways. Our goal is to help both our children and adults live a better quality of life by learning to ‘bend’ with the changes.
Why the name Bend or Break?
The phrase ‘bend or break’ comes from the story of the oak and the reed, an old teaching that has different versions in many cultures from the ancient Greeks to the traditional Japanese. In many versions of the story, the old oak tree taunts the reed at the river’s edge for its frailty and always bending and yielding to every breeze. The reed does not answer or argue, it just continues to bend and sway, allowing the wind to move and change within and around it’s leaves. One day the wisdom of the bending reed becomes apparent when the proud and mighty oak tree is snapped in the strong winds of the storm.
The moral of the story: Bend or Break.
You can learn more about the story here.
What is Neurodiversity?
It’s a variation in the human brain regarding sociability, learning, attention, mood and other mental functions in a non-pathological sense. It covers everything from ADHD, High Functioning Autism (Asperger’s) and Giftedness, to learning disorders like Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and Auditory Processing. These differences result in issues which, when left unaddressed or mishandled, can lead to behavior challenges, anxiety and/or depression.
What is Bend or Break?
Here you will find practical insights and ideas based on real life experiences and in-depth study with a fresh approach to problems in new and nontraditional ways. Our goal is to help both our children and adults live a better quality of life by learning to ‘bend’ with the changes.
Why the name Bend or Break?
The phrase ‘bend or break’ comes from the story of the oak and the reed, an old teaching that has different versions in many cultures from the ancient Greeks to the traditional Japanese. In many versions of the story, the old oak tree taunts the reed at the river’s edge for its frailty and always bending and yielding to every breeze. The reed does not answer or argue, it just continues to bend and sway, allowing the wind to move and change within and around it’s leaves. One day the wisdom of the bending reed becomes apparent when the proud and mighty oak tree is snapped in the strong winds of the storm.
The moral of the story: Bend or Break.
You can learn more about the story here.
