TPP 009a: 11-Year-Old Asher and Debbie on the Importance of Morning Routines
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is the new 6‑step Miracle Morning routine we’re trying with Asher?
Hey there, it's Debbie, and this is a special playback Friday episode of the podcast, meaning it's a favorite conversation from the Tilt Parenting Archives, which go back to 2016. Unless you're a longtime listener, there's a good chance you haven't heard this one yet, and even if you are, you'll likely get something completely different from listening to it this time around. I know I did. I hope you enjoy it. Do you wanna kind of explain
summarize what it is? It's where you do a certain um some certain activities in the morning like meditation and reading and exercise and visualization and affirmation and and that's it. And you and you do 'em in the morning and you get to choose how you do them. And then Basically the effect is to actually make you um Better person and Well, it has certainly helped me be less grumpy. Really? You think it has? Yes. The day when I didn't do the miracle warning and woke up really early.
What happened? I was really, really grumbly.
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 Rieber, and today's episode features another short conversation with my 11-year-old son Asher. Today we're going to tell you about our special morning routine, a new six-step routine we've been doing since January in the hope that it would help our days be more productive, happy, energetic, and focused. And spoiler alert, it's working. To learn more about this podcast and Tilt, the revolution for parents raising atypical kids, visit TILParenting.com. Last summer I listened to an episode of Pat Flynn's awesome podcast, Smart Passive Income.
And Pat was following up on an interview he'd done with author and speaker Hal Elrod. Who wrote the book The Miracle Morning: The Not So Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life before 8 AM? The book outlines a simple morning routine that Pat said had totally transformed his life, and because I'm someone who's always looking for ways to make the most out of each day, I was inspired to check it out for myself. I talked to Asher about it back in August and before we got our school year started and asked if he would be willing to give it a try with me, and he said sure. And as a side note, I am always looking for tools to share with Asher that can help him more consciously go about his day.
How did Asher initially react to the idea of a morning routine?
I consider this a huge part of helping him develop his executive functioning skills and therefore it's actually a major focus of how I approach our time in homeschool. So when I first mentioned it to Asher, I could tell he was open but not super enthusiastic. So I decided we should start out slowly. We'll be right back after this quick break. We had read a book. Called The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod. And you were kind of resistant to the idea of doing it initially.
What? Me? I would never do such a thing.
But so we kinda broke it down. We took the whole fall to read the book. Usually like one chapter a week or maybe two chapters a week. Uh what is that? It's the fall. The whole fall. Oh, thank you for that. Any hoodles. So we took the fall to read it, but then we had kind of a goal of starting the new year with some sort of morning routine. But we wanted to make sure that it worked for us. So how did we do that?
Um well we customized it. We found out what we tried and th thought of what worked best and based on our past experiences.
Mm-hmm.
And also what sounded good to us.
So briefly, the Miracle Morning is based on the idea that when you consciously start your day doing activities that reinforce what you want to be creating and doing in your life, then you'll be much more likely to achieve those things. In reading through the book, a lot of it's geared toward inspiring adults to have more fulfilling lives and jobs and so on. Asher feels pretty fulfilled already, and he clearly doesn't have a job, so in our discussions about the book, we focused on the notion of being more purposeful and achieving our goals.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the new 6‑step Miracle Morning routine we’re trying with Asher?
0:00–2:39
2
How did Asher initially react to the idea of a morning routine?
2:39–4:42
3
What are the specific steps (meditation, affirmations, visualization, etc.) and how does Asher do each one?
4:42–6:17
4
Why does Asher say the routine makes him feel less grumpy and more focused?
6:17–7:46
5
How does the visualization step work for Asher and what music does he use?
7:46–9:22
6
What challenges does Asher face with journaling and how has he overcome them?
9:22–11:30
7
Can the Miracle Morning routine help other kids, especially those who are differently wired?
11:30–13:28
8
What have we learned after three months of doing the routine and what’s next?
13:28–14:42
Speakers
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