TPP 117: Angela Pruess on Supporting Children's Fledgling Self-Regulation
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
40 min
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8 chapters
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What is self‑regulation and why is it crucial for children’s development?
Being able to separate our own emotional needs and baggage, so to speak, from our child's needs and behaviors allows us to respond to them much more. Productively and effectively. So Overall, as parents, we'll be able to guide our child with their own self self-regulation much more effectively if we ourselves have done the work first.
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 this week my guest is Angela Pruis, a licensed clinical therapist and mom of three who wants to help all of us raise emotionally healthy kids that will change the world by explaining the heart and science behind our child's development and emotional needs. Kids. Angela is the woman behind Parents with Confidence, and she frequently writes about childhood, mental health, and the therapeutic power of play. Angela and I have been in touch since I first launched Tilt, so I'm really excited to finally be bringing her onto the show.
She has a lot of areas of expertise, but for this episode, we decided to specifically focus on the topic of that elusive thing so many of us are trying to help develop in our kids, but can be very difficult to know how to do and what we should expect over our child's developmental timeline. I'm talking about self-regulation and emotional regulation. Today we'll dive deep into what these types of regulation are, why they're an important skill for our kids to develop, the different ways we as parents and caregivers and teachers can support our kids and nurture these skills, and much more. There are a lot of great nuggets in this episode. I hope you get a lot out of it. Hey Angela, welcome to the podcast.
Hi Debbie, thanks so much for having me on. Yeah, you know, I was realizing I was going back through our correspondence and I realized we talked pretty early on, I think, when I launched Tilt and uh just trying to figure out how to get you on because you have expertise in so many areas that we cover. And I I'm excited about the topic that we came up with today and talking about emotional regulation, self-regulation. But before we get into that, please Please just take a minute and tell us about who you are and and what you do and kind of your personal why.
Sure. So My journey kind of started around fifteen years ago when I started working as a child and family therapist with differently wired kids. Um and I always loved seeing the world through their unique perspective and Seeing how these kids would find strength and resiliency in the face of adversity. And then about eight years ago I had a little collision of work and life when we had Um our oldest daughter and I got to start walking this path of raising a unique, differently wired kiddo. Um so our oldest daughter, who's eight now, has ADHD in attentive type. And our six year old is two E, so she has ADHD combined type and is also gifted And she also um deals with anxiety and sensory processing challenges.
So I really got to see how The experience of raising a unique kiddo. could be so isolating and how there was so much space for more information. More awareness, more support around you know, really hard issues that parents face when their kiddos are dealing with mental health challenges like you know, aggressive kids in the classroom or the decision of whether or not um to start medication. There were just so many things that I felt like you know, parents just needed more support with. So I was inspired to start my website, which is Parents with Confidence, as a way to reach more parents. Who were struggling with in this path on this path in hopes of helping them to Find confidence in the role of parenting a more complex kid.
And to also provide information to parents with my background um as a counselor that allows their child to grow to their full potential because I so deeply believe that every child deserves to reach their full potential and although it'll certainly be a more complicated path um to get them there.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is self‑regulation and why is it crucial for children’s development?
0:00–5:54
2
How does Angela’s personal journey as a therapist and parent shape her view on self‑regulation?
5:54–11:38
3
What does research say about the age‑related milestones of self‑regulation?
11:38–16:27
4
How can parents model effective self‑regulation for their kids?
16:27–21:38
5
What strategies help teachers partner with parents to support children’s self‑regulation in school?
21:38–26:31
6
Which practical tools (mindfulness, breathing, routines) boost self‑regulation at home?
26:31–30:34
7
How can parents handle resistance when kids don’t want to try self‑regulation techniques?
30:34–34:55
8
Where can listeners find Angela’s resources and get ongoing support for self‑regulation?
34:55–40:22
Speakers
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