TPP 092: 13-year-old Asher Talks About Deep Interests
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
31 min
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
What is your favorite part of that process been Asher?
I honestly think it's been it's The end result. It's always the end result. It's really nice being able to go, Okay I now know all about the subject and I have a font I can use. Right. I mean I haven't done that particular thing but I've Done lots of stuff in Blender. It's really nice to be confident that I know about a subject and that I did something right. And that now I can use it in upcoming projects.
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 is another kids' POV special, or what my 13-year-old son likes to call, an Asher special. If you're a longtime listener of the show, you may have noticed that I'm not releasing Asher episodes as frequently as I used to. Now that Asher is fully leaning into his teenage hood, things are changing a little bit here, so I'm giving him lots of space and just respecting where he's at. So while he's told me he's definitely still up for continuing to record specials, my hunch is they'll be more spaced out than they used to be.
And if you're a newer listener, I've recorded 18 short episodes with Asher since we first launched in 2007. So I encourage you to go back and check some of those out. Many of our listeners co-listen to those episodes with their kids, and I've heard from many people that these episodes are really useful for both parents and kids alike, just to hear about things from Asher's point of view.
What are Asher’s deepest interests and how did they develop?
To access previous Asher episodes, just visit chiltparenting.com/slash podcast and click on the button for Asher Specials. But today We do have a new episode with Asher and the topic is areas of interest, as in what is it like for Asher to have a deep area of interest? How would he like me as his parent to support his interests? Why does he get interested in things the way he does? And more. So if you have a child who likes to dive deep into things, whether it's Legos or dinosaurs or trains or bugs or anything, You might get some helpful insights from our conversation. And before I get to our chat, I wanted to let you know that I have just put together a little cheat sheet, a one-page downloadable PDF you can print out and stick on your fridge that features my 10 biggest parenting strategies I took away from all the podcast episodes I recorded last year.
The cheat sheet features advice from Dr. Ross Green, author Jessica Leahy, executive functioning coach Seth Perler, and more. And it's designed to offer you quick, helpful strategies, a little parenting SOS, if you will. I also created six beautifully designed wallpaper quotes from these strategies for your mobile phone so you can grab some inspiration on the go. You just turn on your phone, and there it is as a reminder. To download those and the cheat sheet, just go to tiltparenting.com/slash cheat sheet. And now here's my conversation with Asher. I hope you enjoy it. Hey Ash, welcome to the podcast. Hello, Mom and various listeners. Hello. We haven't done an Asther special episode in a while. And we thought today we would talk about the issue of deep areas of interest.
Because I actually get a lot of questions from listeners about that, specifically wanting to know more about your areas of interest and more specifically how they can support their kids. Because as you know, There are a lot of kids like you who get really, really, really, really interested in something and then that something becomes their world for a while. And sometimes parents don't know how to be a part of that world. So that's what we're gonna talk about today. Sound good to you? Yeah. Awesome. So just for listeners to have some context, I thought it would be interesting to just share what some of your deep areas of interest have been over the years. Do you wanna tell us what some of them have been?
Uh, well, these are all various levels of depth. What do you mean? Well, space and the deep sea have been my deepest interests.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:41
2
What are Asher’s deepest interests and how did they develop?
1:41–5:16
3
How does Asher decide which interests to pursue deeply?
5:16–8:46
4
Why should parents avoid steering kids away from their passions?
8:46–13:33
5
How can parents support a child’s interest when they know little about it?
13:33–18:51
6
What are the benefits of turning a hobby into a school project?
18:51–31:01
Speakers
1 identifiedMore from Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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