TPP 117a: 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
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What is self‑regulation and why is it crucial for children’s development?
Hey there, it's Debbie and welcome to Playback Friday. Every Friday, I'll re-release one of my favorite conversations from the archives. 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 have, you just may get something completely different listening to it this time around.
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-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 Reber, and this week, my guest is Angela Pruess, 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. 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 a 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 just trying to figure out how to get you on because you have expertise in so many areas that we cover. And 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 just take a minute and tell us about who you are and what you do and kind of your personal why.
Sure. So my journey kind of started around 15 years ago when I started working as a child and family therapist with differently wired kids. 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 our oldest daughter. And I got to start walking this path of raising a unique, differently wired kiddo. So our oldest daughter, who's eight now, has ADHD, an attentive type. And our six-year-old is 2E, so she has ADHD combined type and is also gifted ADHD. And she also 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 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 are struggling 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 as a counselor that allows their child to grow to their full potential.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is self‑regulation and why is it crucial for children’s development?
0:00–5:41
2
How does a child’s age affect the timeline for developing self‑regulation skills?
5:41–10:38
3
Why is parental modeling more important than direct instruction for self‑regulation?
10:38–16:03
4
How can parents co‑regulate with their child during emotional meltdowns?
16:03–21:24
5
What practical tools (mindfulness, breathing, routines) boost a child’s self‑regulation?
21:24–26:41
6
How can teachers become partners in supporting a child’s self‑regulation at school?
26:41–31:54
7
What strategies help when a child resists mindfulness or regulation techniques?
31:54–36:14
8
Which resources (games, apps, Zones of Regulation) are most effective for building self‑regulation?
36:14–40:42
Speakers
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