Samantha Cotterill

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 186: Author and Illustrator Samantha Cotterill Discusses Her New Book Series, Little Senses · 2 Dec 2019 podcast

And I have to say, the most meaningful parts are the emails that you'll get from a parent and

that often it'll be a parent picking up the book from the library and say 30% of the time, the emails would come from a parent that grabbed the book, not knowing that it was a book for kids on the spectrum.

And there was one in particular where she said she sat down with her son and started to read the book and her eyes just went wide open.

And her son looked up at her and just said, mommy, that was me yesterday at the beach.

And she just said, I just started pouring my eyes out and we read the book, read it again.

And then we were able to have a discussion about what can we do the next time we go to the beach.

And she just said, we're so excited to go to the beach again and use this one, two, three tap in hopes.

And he's excited because he saw that there's a chance to have fun because he's always wanted to go to the beach.

And it was just such a disaster that,

quote unquote, with the way it ended, that the book gave both of them a really positive excitement about trying it again.

And it's just those emails that you get where you're like, okay, this is why I do this.

There may be days where it's really stressful and I'm worried and am I going to be able to get this book written in a way that I think is going to resonate?

And then you get one of these emails in your inbox and it just kind of washes all of that away and you realize, okay,

This is why these are out there.

And just this email alone is all the juice I need to keep going.

And it's

you.

Yeah.

And I just, there were just a few key things that I really wanted to make sure that were included in that book.

And it goes to say, like with raising kids, it can be easy to get into the rut of just pointing out

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