Eliza Sednow. “Harassments, exclusions have always been there, we just didn’t have the words to say it”

“You don’t have to be an adult for personal development.” For Eliza Sednaoui, a former Franco-Egyptian-Italian model living in the USA, it is obvious. time for education, growing up well is essential. For about ten years, he devoted himself to special educational issues through the “Funtasia” foundation. He produced a book he co-wrote with Paolo Borzachiello for children over 11 and their parents.

Madame Figaro . – For this book, you chose to put yourself in the shoes of the teenager you were. Who was he?
Eliza Sednow. –Much has remained the same… I was, and I believe I was, a curious person who wanted to understand how people think, to have intimate connections with others. But I was very insecure, fragile. I lacked stability and gave too much power to others to define me.

Was it hard to find that voice again?
Not really. The hardest part was making sure that the expressions and language used were for today’s teenagers to identify with and not come across as clichéd. (Is laughing): For the rest, these stories drawn from my life are still there, very close. Like this time, when my classmates did not talk to me for several months when I returned from Egypt. No adults saw what was happening. This is where the quality of the teacher makes a huge difference, where I want the issue to be better prepared within the school…

Sometimes parents don’t understand what’s going on.
I was an only child until I was 10 years old, and being alone, not being able to share a situation with someone, or be able to put down parenting behavior makes all the difference.

Do you think life is more complicated for teenagers today?
Social media has undoubtedly changed the dynamic. At the same time, harassment, exclusions, difficulties of being separated from parents were always there, we just had no words to say. THE: bullying (“bullying”) is a new word. And because we didn’t talk about violence, gender inequality, we didn’t talk about school bullying…

In the past, we didn’t talk about violence and gender inequality, so we didn’t talk about school bullying

of Eliza Sednow

One of the tools you provide is linguistic intelligence. In other words, our brain is listening to us. What does it mean ?
The brain produces hormones related to the words we use. He has no sense of humor, is second rate and does not take denial. If I tell you “no problem,” he hears “problem” and immediately produces cortisol, the stress hormone. On the other hand, if I say “I have a problem to solve,” that will produce dopamine. It’s exercise, but like sports, it pays off.

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