Devorah Heitner

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2,393 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2018 last heard 17 Oct

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 313a: Dr. Devorah Heitner on Online Safety and Internet “Rabbit Holes” and Neurodivergent Kids · 17 Oct 2025 podcast

But if their coach or their, you know, youth group leader or someone they trust is able to open up, like not go in and bash their beliefs like head on, but kind of go from the side and like ask them some questions, that'll be some good information.

First of all, are there any actual internal doubts?

Like, is your kid really hook line and sinker into this idea or

Are they curious about it but also maybe doing it to piss you off?

Like that would be good to know.

Et cetera.

I mean, there's a lot of

Detailed information.

I mean, if you need to like actually deprogram a kid from like a hate group, that's a different scenario.

But there's many places a kid could be that would be concerning before they're actually leaving home to kind of enlist themselves in some kind of extremism and violence.

I mean, I do think the f the amount of talking kids are doing about mental health, if you're not aware of that, might be surprising.

Like kids are very open and I think that's a boundary that in many ways I'm gonna say is a positive change, that the young people are leading a change in our culture.

We're talking about mental health.

is normalized.

So think about Simone Biles.

Think about, you know, examples where someone has really come forward and been supported and think about how young people felt about BIOS and like rallied around her and supported her.

That's not to say your kid will necessarily get the same treatment like in their high school if they sort of come out about mental health stuff.

But it's worth understanding that kids are changing those boundaries.

That said,

What if if you have a child who's struggling, especially with something like maybe depression, for example, or an eating disorder, you don't want them spending all their time online in the company of other people with that shared diagnosis kind of reinforcing it.

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