TPP 120: Back to School Special with Understood's Amanda Morin
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
45 min
2 speakers
8 chapters
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What back‑to‑school anxieties do parents of differently wired kids face?
I'm never really a fan of just dropping a kid in a situation and letting them figure it out. But I'm totally a fan of providing a clear idea of what the expectations may be in any given situation. Stepping back and not jumping in before they need help to meet those expectations. So I don't think we're setting kids up to fail, just that you can build the scaffolding, show your child how to navigate it and stand back from a distance, watching them scale it.
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 this week I'm doing a special back to school episode to help families preparing for easing into the coming school year with as much confidence and serenity as possible. I'm grateful to be welcoming back to the podcast Amanda Morin, a writer, parent advocate, a former educator, and the content development manager at one of my favorite go-to resources, Understood. Amanda and I cover a lot of ground in this episode in looking at the different potential concerns and stressors for kids this time of year, which will vary depending on their age and grade level.
And we'll talk about how we can support our kids through them, how to care. kick the year off on the right foot with our child's teachers, how much support and scaffolding our kids need, and how we as parents can best prepare ourselves too. After you've listened to the episode, I recommend you go to bts.understood.org. Bts is short for back to school. So again, it's bts.understood.org, and that's where you will find understood's back to school toolkit, which features expert vetted tips, tools, and videos that can help you and your child feel more confident and prepared for the first day of class. And before I get to the episode, if you haven't checked out my book Differently Wired yet, I invite you to download the first chapter and the table of contents at tiltparenting.com slash book.
I have been bowled away by the response from our parenting community so far, and I am thrilled to hear from parents who say the book is helping them feel optimistic and confident about raising their exceptional kids. If you have read it already and you like what you read, I would be grateful if you could take five minutes to head over to Amazon and leave a review for the book. Reviews not only help people deciding whether or not the book is for them get a sense of its value, but having a lot of reviews makes it more likely the book will show up in searches when people are looking for parenting books in the general area of raising atypical kids. And lastly, I have had the pleasure of doing some virtual book club visits with some online groups who are reading Differently Wired as a group.
I love doing these kinds of visits over Facebook Live. It's a great chance for me to learn more about what's resonating with people and it gives readers a chance to explore some of the places where they might be feeling a little bit stuck. If you are reading the book as a group online and you'd like me to join you for a Facebook Live or a chat, just send me a message via the Tilt Parenting Facebook page or you can email me at Debbie at TiltParenting.com and we'll see what we can work out. And if you're looking to read it as a group for an in-person book club, I would love to find a way to Skype into your group if we could make that happen. So if you go to tiltparenting.com slash book, you'll find a section that says, is your book club reading differently wire?
So just click on the learn more button there and you can learn more. So thank you so much. And now here is my conversation with Amanda. Hello, Amanda. Welcome back to the podcast. Hi, thanks for having me back. It's good to talk to you again. I know. Well we just saw each other in New York not too long ago, so it's it's fun to be now having this conversation, which is gonna be all about back to school 'cause it's that time of year. Not crazy that it's that time of year again.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What back‑to‑school anxieties do parents of differently wired kids face?
0:00–7:07
2
How can a “medication vacation” affect a child’s return to school?
7:07–13:03
3
What age‑specific stressors should families expect for elementary, middle, and high school students?
13:03–18:05
4
How should parents prepare and conduct teacher‑parent conferences before school starts?
18:05–22:58
5
Who should be part of a child’s support network and how can they be coordinated?
22:58–28:34
6
What practical strategies help kids develop self‑advocacy skills?
28:34–34:22
7
What steps help families navigate a new school environment or a school transfer?
34:22–40:31
8
How can parents manage their own anxiety and create a calm, confident start to the school year?
40:31–45:53
Speakers
2 identifiedMore from Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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