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What Just Happened? And Where Do We Go from Here?

By: Don M. Winn March 25, 2020 parentingchoices, feeling out of control, focus on the positive, gratitude, pandemic, restoring a sense of controlLeave a Comment

The year 2020 has certainly taken a most unprecedented turn. Never in my life did I envision such a profound change in life and circumstances taking place in such a short period of time. The terrors present for each of us are beyond imagining: a galloping worldwide contagion, financial instability, loss of jobs and personal…

If You Change the Way You Look at Things, the Things You Look at Change

By: Don M. Winn February 4, 2020March 3, 2020 dyslexia, parenting, teachingchanging outlook, Don M. Winn, fear-based point of view, help for parenting dyslexic kids, language-based learning difficulties, positive outlook

Psychologist Wayne Dyer uttered the wise words above many years ago, and I love his point. This technique of being able to see a person or a situation with new eyes is so helpful to both struggling readers and their parents. How? When a child has dyslexia or otherwise struggles to read, write, listen, do…

Preliteracy includes valuable skills that prepare children to learn to read. In this photo, a mother reads aloud to her two young children. Don M. Winn's new book Raising a Child with Dyslexia: What Every Parent Needs to Know discusses vital tools every parent can use with every child to help them become readers.

What Is Preliteracy, and When Can Parents Begin to Build It?

By: Don M. Winn September 10, 2019 dyslexia, education, parentingDon M. Winn, dyslexia, helping kids read, learning in the womb, preliteracy, Raising a Child With Dyslexia What Every Parent Needs to Know, reading, special needs

Life is funny sometimes; when we start a conversation about a topic, it can be interesting to see what ideas the masses have embraced. Groupthink is a term that means that a group of well-intentioned people have decided that a matter or task should be handled a certain way, often because that’s the way it…

Helping Your Child Understand Dyslexia

By: Don M. Winn August 28, 2019 dyslexia, parentingADD, ADHD, coping with dyslexia, explaining dyslexia to kids, how to explain dyslexia to kids, kids, learning challenges, talking about dyslexia, teaching kids about dyslexia

There are times in every parent’s life when they need to help their child understand a difficult concept. It could be something like the reason for someone’s emotional outburst, the illness or loss of a pet, an upcoming move, or something more abstract. When a child is struggling with dyslexia or some other learning difficulty,…

Dyslexia: Before and After

By: Don M. Winn July 29, 2019August 11, 2019 childrens education, dyslexia, parentingbook, Don M. Winn, dyslexia museum exhibit, famous dyslexics, how to help dyslexic kids, Oklahoma City Science Museum, Raising a Child with Dyslexia, what is dyslexia

It’s nothing short of arresting to consider the fact that even though dyslexia was identified about 150 years ago, there’s still a lot of misunderstanding and outright prejudice about it, even among some highly trained educators. Indeed, countless dyslexia sufferers are discriminated against and repeatedly told that they’re not trying hard enough or that they’re…

Screen Time Vs. Creativity: Finding the Balance for Growing Children

By: Don M. Winn September 18, 2018July 5, 2019 parentingcell phones, creativity, iPads, iPhone, is it bad for little kids to use phones, kids, nurturing creativity, screen time

It’s hard to believe, but the iPad has only been part of our world for 8 years. And the iPhone has been around just a little longer—a mere 11 years. During that tiny slice of human history, people everywhere have become lit up by glowing screens. I’m no exception, and certainly no Luddite: I have…

Distraction vs. Happiness

By: Don M. Winn June 27, 2018July 5, 2019 parentingimmersion, mindfulness, multitasking, unhappiness3 Comments

How skilled are you at multitasking? Many of us think we’re pretty good at it, but truth be told, the human mind is not wired to multitask. What we call multitasking is actually a shifting of our focus from one task to another, like channel surfing on your TV. It’s simply not possible to receive…

Living with an Adult with Dyslexia

By: Don M. Winn September 19, 2017July 5, 2019 dyslexiadyslexia, help, marriage2 Comments

In my last blog, I talked about 5 hallmarks of being an adult with undiagnosed or misunderstood dyslexia. In my youth and well into adulthood, I knew I was dyslexic, but it was just a label, nothing more. I was ignorant about dyslexia and its many implications. When I met my wife and we got…

Dyslexia Articles

Click here to read some of my archived blogs and other published articles on dyslexia.

Chapter Books

The Sir Kaye the Boy Knight series by Don M. Winn is an award-winning four-book series for middle readers about the adventures of a twelve-year-old knight.

Picture Books

Don M. Winn is the author of 12 picture books designed to help parents instill great literacy habits in their children. Click here to learn more!