TPP 150a: Heather Turgeon and Julie Wright On Handling Common Parenting Dilemmas
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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Hey there, it's Debbie. Today's episode is a special re-release of a favorite conversation from the archives. Unless you're a longtime listener of the show, there's a good chance you haven't heard this one before. And even if you have, you just might get something completely different from it this time around.
Having that mentality of my job is not to manipulate and shape behavior. My job is to go under the surface and understand and figure out what developmental skill my child's working on. How can I be their partner and help them and be there as their assistant to give them the little boost that they need at every level?
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. My name is Debbie Reber. I'm the host of the show. And this week, I'm talking with two guests, Heather Turgeon and Julie Wright. They are psychotherapists, partners at the Happy Sleeper, and co authors of the new book, Now Say This, the right words to solve every parenting dilemma. Heather and Julie have a lot of ideas about how to handle difficult situations in a way that's respectful of the child and supports their social and emotional development. So today, they're going to share some of these with us, including their ALP approach, stands for attune, limit and problem solve, how we can move through situations involving big or physical behavior, and things to consider regarding using rewards and punishments as tools for discipline.
As I say at the end of the interview, I felt calmer just after having this conversation. So I hope it does the same for you. Thank you so much. And now here is my conversation with Heather and Julie. Hello, Heather and Julie, welcome to the podcast.
Hi.
So, all right. So we're doing kind of a bi-coastal record today, which is always exciting. I hope it's sunny in Los Angeles area, by the way. Before we get started, could you both take a moment just to introduce yourselves? And I'm also just curious how you came to collaborate together, how this relationship as co-authors and working together started.
Okay, well, I'm Julie Wright, and I'm a marriage and family therapist. And I live in New York City, and I have a Mommy and Me program, actually Mommy and Daddy and Me program in Los Angeles that I continue to run. And I do sleep consultation work and parent consult work here in New York City. And I'm from New York originally, so I've kind of come back home. Okay.
And I'm Heather Turgeon. I'm here, as you said, on the sunny West Coast. And I'm actually from New York as well, but I'm out here. Julie and I met through the Mommy and Me program in Los Angeles. And we have worked with parents on sleep and also communication, setting limits with empathy for years now together. And we wrote our first book, The Happy Sleeper, four years ago now. So I see a lot of parents around sleep with baby to school age kids. And then more recently, our book Now Say This, which is the ALP model of communication. So a lot of our clients are also parents struggling with difficult moments and behaviors and family communication. So our practices are on both coasts, but we also work with parents all over the world via Skype and that kind of thing.
Awesome. Yeah, I wish the happy sleeper had been around when I was the parent of a young
child
because sleep was just, I mean, I just imagine your businesses must be booming. This is such an area of pain for so many parents.
Yeah, sleep is a real, it's a real dilemma and it's a real crisis moment for a lot of parents at different ages for different reasons. So yeah, it's a satisfying line of work because it's very, very fixable.
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