TPP 093: A Conversation with ADHD and Autism Parent Coach Penny Williams
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
51 min
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5 chapters
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What motivated Penny Williams to become an ADHD and autism parent coach?
I felt like there was no guidebook, there's no rule book. You know, you get the what to expect for pregnancy, they have what to expect books for different ages and stages now. But, you know, when we get a diagnosis of ADHD, we get maybe a fact sheet or two, a prescription. And we're just pushed out into the world on our own to figure it out.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Rieber, and my guest this week is Penny Williams, author of the book Boy Without Instructions: Surviving the Learning Curve of Parenting a Child with ADHD, as well as the Insider's Guide to ADHD, and What to Expect When Parenting a Child with ADHD. Penny is also the founder of Parenting ADHD and Autism, which features a blog, coaching, and the Parenting ADHD podcast, all aimed at helping parents raising special kids survive, thrive, and parent with purpose. In our conversation today, Penny shares her story of raising her differently wired son, gives us the inside scoop on her books, and shares some of her best strategies for getting through the tough moments with our unique kiddos.
I hope you enjoyed the episode. Before I get to that chat, I recently created a little cheat sheet, a one page downloadable PDF that you can print out and stick to your fridge, featuring my 10 best parenting strategies. strategies that I took away from the podcast episodes I produced last year. The cheat sheet features advice from people like Dr. Ross Green, author Jessica Leahy, executive function coach Seth Perler, and more. I designed it to give you kind of a quick helpful strategy sheet, a little parenting SOS, if you will. I also put together six beautifully designed wallpaper quotes from the strategies for your mobile phone so you can grab some inspiration on the go. To download those and the cheat sheet, just go to tiltparenting.com/slash cheat sheet.
And now here is my conversation with Penny. Hey Penny, welcome to the podcast.
Thanks so much for having me, Debbie. I really appreciate it.
Well, I'm looking forward to this conversation. I feel like we are Two moms in the trenches and uh dealing with some pretty similar issues. So I think this should be uh an interesting conversation. But as a way of introducing you to listeners, could you tell us a little bit about your personal story? I know that's what one of your books is about, but can you share with us who you are and who your son is and and what's going on in your world?
Yeah, absolutely. So about a little over nine years ago, my son was first diagnosed with ADHD. He um had really struggled in kindergarten. And he did start early. He is an October baby. Um, but we knew he was really smart. We didn't really realize that we had anything going on other than kind of a really active boy, you know? And so Um kindergarten was super rough. And he was constantly in trouble, the teacher was constantly calling me, but nobody ever said, Hey, there might be something to this. It was always you didn't prepare him for kindergarten, you know, he wasn't ready for this. You need to talk to him at home. You need to give him chores so he learns responsibility. You know, all of these excuses um, for why he was having all this troublesome behavior and and most of it really was hyperactivity and inattention.
You know, he wanted to run around that awesome room and check everything out. He didn't want to be on a schedule. He didn't want to do what everybody else was doing, you know, and so Um, it was a real issue for the teacher. And so we switched schools because that was a charter school and they had made some decisions that we certainly didn't agree with, like The kindergarten teacher having her infant in the classroom. The second half of the year. Every minute of the entire school day. And so, you know, there's eighteen five year olds running around this tiny cramped room and they're always hearing, Watch out for the baby Quiet for the baby, you know, it just it it didn't make any sense to me.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What motivated Penny Williams to become an ADHD and autism parent coach?
0:00–9:56
2
How did Penny’s son’s early school experiences shape her parenting approach?
9:56–20:28
3
What challenges did Penny face when seeking a proper diagnosis for her son?
20:28–28:19
4
How did medication decisions impact her son’s development and family dynamics?
28:19–41:51
5
What insights did Penny gain from discovering her son’s autism diagnosis?
41:51–51:12
Speakers
2 identifiedMore from Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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