TPP 008: Simone Davies on How to Be a Calm Parent in Difficult Situations
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is Montessori and how does it shape the episode’s parenting approach?
I mean, also just stepping in and saying, I can see that you're not coping. And if you had to stay in that room with other people, just by you being very calm and modeling and leading the child, the other parents, I'm going to judge you. They're going to think, wow, she just is so supportive of her child
and she's
there for him no matter what's
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Welcome to the Tilt Parenting Podcast, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Reber, and today's episode features a conversation with Simone Davies. Simone is a Montessori teacher and parent educator who runs a Montessori play group in Amsterdam for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers up to four years old. She's also the founder of the Montessori Notebook, featuring free articles, downloads, and videos on the Montessori approach, as well as her virtual e-course, Setting Up Your Home, Montessori Style. Simone also happens to be a dear friend and regular work buddy, and we meet up weekly to co-work over coffee.
We often get into deep conversations about education, parenting, and our children. And I wanted to share one of our conversations with the Tilt Parenting audience. So in today's episode, Simone and I talk about a lot of different issues, but our focus is on emotionally supporting our children and ourselves in especially difficult situations. I hope you enjoyed the episode and I look forward to bringing more conversations with Simone to the podcast. To learn more about Tilt, the revolution for parents raising atypical kids, visit www.tiltparenting.com. Hey, Simone, thanks for coming over to my child's bedroom.
I love it. I think this is awesome. I'm never going to forget coming over to Debbie's house. We're sitting on the floor in Asher's
room, and we're going to have fun. Just have a chat. One of the things I guess I learned about you when we first met is that you're a Montessori instructor, but... Much more than that, but I'm kind of new to the Montessori world and some of our listeners might be too. So would you mind just kind of, I don't know, do you have like a two minute spiel of what Montessori is?
Yeah, sure. Montessori is like an alternative education system. So instead of a teacher standing at the front of the classroom, instead you have materials laid out around the room and different subject areas and the children actually learn. can choose for themselves what they want to work on so it's actually empowering children to learn because they're interested in something not because the teacher says that this is what we need to learn and so you're basically encouraging curiosity in kids and yeah empowering them to stick at things concentrate follow their own development no one's the same and then you have mixed age groups usually in a classroom so the older kids can help the younger kids and the younger kids observing and watching the older kids and
So it amazingly works that it's not complete chaos, actually. Everyone's really busy working. Yeah, the freedom to choose is amazing because they actually want to learn then. Yeah.
Yeah, that's very cool. And I think in kind of learning about the work that you're doing, and I've learned more about Montessori through you and realized there's a lot of overlap, I feel like, in the ways that we're trying to raise Asher, especially because a lot of our focus is on developing... kind of executive functioning skills and independence and doing things on his own that for Asher and for a lot of kids who are differently wired or approach things differently might be more challenging. So I'm really interested in that aspect of Montessori too. I know I always think of little kids now like chopping vegetables and, you know, kind of working in the kitchen at a young age. And that's a big part of it too, right?
This kind of independently doing things.
Yeah, totally.
How do children’s individual timelines affect parenting expectations?
It's not like saying, oh, here you have to grow up and do everything yourself, like and take all the fun out of childhood.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is Montessori and how does it shape the episode’s parenting approach?
0:00–3:46
2
How do children’s individual timelines affect parenting expectations?
3:46–6:00
3
What strategies help parents stay calm during public meltdowns?
6:00–9:37
4
How can the “sportscaster” technique create emotional distance for parents?
9:37–12:37
5
Why is focused breathing so effective for calming intense moments?
12:37–16:13
6
How does practicing empathy diffuse a child’s big emotions?
16:13–19:05
7
What is the role of making amends and restitution after a conflict?
19:05–21:39
8
What practical resources (e‑courses, books) support calm parenting?
21:39–25:02
Speakers
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