Georgie Wisen-Vincent

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 426: Georgie Wisen-Vincent on Unlocking Our Kids’ Emotional Balance and Resilience with The Way of Play · 28 Jan 2025 podcast

They want us to mirror them from time to time.

Mirroring is a part of how we're developing our earliest attachments to the primary people in our life that are raising us and caring for us.

And also, you know, helping us to figure out our ways of being in the world.

And I knew as a mom, I wanted my son to be able to be as authentic as possible.

I didn't even know that there was a neurodiversity movement at the time.

And I certainly wasn't like trying

to shift the way that I played with him in order to get him to play in a specific way and to turn him into a specific kind of guy.

I just wanted to feel more connected with him.

And I noticed that when I started learning new ways of playing through his language, the way that he wanted to play, the way that made sense to his brain and in his mind, that that mirroring process, you know, when you just unconsciously you start doing the same thing as the other person and they start doing the same thing as you and you feel really aligned and something's clicking.

that he didn't mirror me back or I couldn't mirror him in the same way that I was sort of expecting that I would.

But I started to notice a little bit more of a gleam in his eye when I started to recognize that play was a language that we could use to relate to each other, if I let go of some of my preconceived ideas of what that had to look like or something.

So I found little ways to kind of join with him.

And I realized, oh my gosh, I'm mirroring something else in him.

I'm mirroring kind of the true essence of who he is.

When

I'm realizing how important this kind of play is to him.

And so it became a shared language for us.

And I think that's possible for any parent, for any kid.

There's a sort of biological, natural, it's sort of a natural way that kids can express things when we're in that state of mirroring with each other, that they just feel so much safer to show us things that they wouldn't ordinarily be able to do.

When we're in a rush, when we've got to get them to school, when we know that there are things that we have to do as parents to get them to fit into a certain structure, you know, to some degree, whatever that looks like for your family.

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