TPP 040: Margaret Webb on What To Do When Grandparents or Extended Family Don't Understand our Child
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
42 min
2 speakers
7 chapters
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What family challenges are parents facing with differently‑wired kids?
And so I'm going back to what do I know works for me and what do I know works for my child and what works best for us together in order to get through all of these situations. And when you do that, it takes the power away from the words, the thoughts, the judgment, you know, that might be directed at you.
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 I'm excited to be bringing back to the show for the third time parent coach Margaret Webb. Today we're talking about family challenges, specifically how to navigate the dynamic with both close and extended family who may not be as tolerant or understanding of our differently wired kids or our reality in raising them as we would like. Margaret and I cooked up the idea for this episode after some comments came up during my holiday survival webinar about this very issue. So often holidays or big family events, weddings, graduations...
They create situations where we're expected to spend lots of time with family, but it might not look the way we or they expect. So what do we do? What are our responsibilities? And how can we best prep for these situations? That's what we're going to dive into today. And a quick announcement before the episode. I recently launched a Patreon campaign for the Tilt Parenting podcast. In case you're not familiar with it, Patreon is a tool to allow patrons or fans to support the work of artists, musicians, and even podcasters. I'm hoping to get some support with the more time consuming aspects of producing this weekly podcast, such as editing, which as we all know, costs money. On Patreon, you can support what we're doing for as little as $2 a month.
And there are some fun perks we've built in as well. If you'd like to support the tilt podcast on Patreon, please check out our page at patreon.com slash till parenting. Thank you for considering and thanks for being a part of our community. And now I'll get on with the show. Hey everyone, I'm Debbie Reber with the Tilt Parenting Podcast and if you're a regular listener to the podcast, you will already be very familiar with today's guest and you'll be excited to hear what goodness she has to share with us because today I'm bringing back to the show parent coach, nature-based coach and former teacher, Margaret Webb. Welcome back, Margaret. Hello. I'm so excited to be back and excited about our conversation.
Me too. Me too. So on past episodes, you and I have covered how parents can find more peace in parenting the child they didn't expect. We also talked about summer break survival strategies, and I will include the links to those episodes in the show notes because if you haven't heard them, definitely go back and check them out. But today, we are tackling a different and equally as important topic, and that is the challenges parents of differently wired kids face when navigating other familial relationships or maybe even close friendships that may not be... shall we say super supportive of what's going on in our world. And I know that you Margaret tuned into my holiday survival plan webinar. And this was something that came up from one of the participants, this idea that it can be really complicated, especially around what many people consider to be traditional family occasions, like the holidays or, you know, Christmas or Thanksgiving in the U S and to deal with being kind of forced to be together and,
While other family members, maybe our siblings or our brothers or sisters-in-law or their children or even maybe our own parents just don't get it. So is this a phenomenon or maybe dynamic would be a better word that you see a lot in your parent coaching practice? Absolutely.
It's one of the top things that comes up
over and
over again with my clients. And it's... something that they really struggle with. And they struggle with it emotionally, they struggle it with, you know, struggle about thoughts about it.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What family challenges are parents facing with differently‑wired kids?
0:00–8:33
2
How do “shooting comments” from relatives trigger judgment and shame?
8:33–17:33
3
What is “dysfunctional family bingo” and how can it prepare parents for tough events?
17:33–22:54
4
How can parents proactively plan for holidays, weddings, and other gatherings?
22:54–28:38
5
When grandparents or relatives don’t understand, what is a parent’s responsibility?
28:38–33:45
6
How should parents handle cousins and peer interactions with a differently‑wired child?
33:45–38:13
7
What quick self‑care tools (like deep breathing) help during stressful family moments?
38:13–42:27
Speakers
2 identifiedMore from Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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