TPP 040a: 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
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What is the main challenge parents face with unsupportive grandparents or extended family?
Hey there, it's Debbie and welcome to Playback Friday. I'm going back into the archives and re releasing some of my favorite conversations from years ago every Friday. Unless you're a longtime listener of the show, there's a good chance you haven't heard this one yet. And even if you are, you just may get something completely different from listening to it this time around. Here you go and enjoy the show.
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 Tilled 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 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 are 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 podcasts, 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 TiltParenting. 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 fr 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 US and to deal
Yeah. 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.
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Chapters
8 chapters
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What is the main challenge parents face with unsupportive grandparents or extended family?
0:00–6:34
2
How do “should‑ing” comments from relatives trigger shame and judgment for parents?
6:34–13:15
3
What emotions arise for parents when family events become stressful for their child?
13:15–18:48
4
How can parents proactively plan for family gatherings to reduce conflict?
18:48–25:05
5
What is the “dysfunctional family bingo” tool and how does it help parents?
25:05–31:07
6
How can parents set boundaries and decide when to attend or skip events?
31:07–36:25
7
What role does deep breathing and self‑care play during tense family interactions?
36:25–40:26
8
What final takeaways and resources does Margaret Webb recommend for navigating family dynamics?
40:26–42:50
Speakers
2 identifiedMore from Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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