TPP 163: Dr. Mark Bertin on Resilience, Executive Function, and Mindfulness
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is Dr. Mark Bertin’s background and why is he qualified to talk about child development?
I really wanted to uh write something that kind of simplified things for parents that allows parents to Really trust that if they just can connect with the basics of what we know helps children. Be resilient, develop healthy lifestyles and routines. you know, sort of step out of the chaos that we're all living in right now. I want to provide a you know, some resource that would allow parents to navigate all that easier.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm Debbie Rieber, your host, and today I'm talking with Dr. Mark Burton, a developmental pediatrician who specializes in the promotion of child development and developmental disorders such as ADHD, autism, and learning disabilities. Mark is also the author of The Family ADHD Solution, Mindful Parenting for ADHD, and his most recent book, which is the focus of today's conversation, How Children Thrive, the practical science of raising independent, resilient, and happy kids. There were so many different directions we could have gone in for this conversation, but we did our best to stick to the topics of how to develop resilience both in our kids and ourselves, the ways in which executive functioning impacts all aspects of a child's development, and how mindfulness can be a powerful tool to help parents manage the uncertainty in day-to-day life.
And now on with the show. Hi Mark, welcome to the podcast.
Uh thank you so much for having me, Debbie.
Okay, well as a way to get started today, can you introduce yourself? Just give us a little bit of background about your work. You have a lot of experience that's very relevant to my audience of parents with differently wired kids. So tell us a little bit about what you do and the books that you've written.
I'd be happy to start with that. So uh I'm a developmental pediatrician, which is a subspecialty of general pediatrics that works just with kids with difficulties and differences. in school, with behaviorally. You know, a lot of the children I see have um ADHD or autism, learning disabilities. So clinically, professionally, that's what I spend all my time doing. But I also, many years ago, was introduced to the practice of mindfulness and um that's a whole other story. Um so initially that was kind of in parallel and I kept it to myself and just had my own practice going and then As the science around mindfulness expanded, I realized that It was kind of silly to be keeping it separately. So Uh, in my writing in particular and my work for anyone who wants it, I also integrate mindfulness.
So I've written Two books that integrate mindfulness into care of ADHD and one book that integrates it into general parenting.
Yeah, it seems like kind of a unique voice in this conversation, you know, to be marrying those two pieces. They're both things that we've talked about on the show, but I've never had someone who comes, you know, through both of these different lenses and and integrates. It's so interesting.
Yeah, I feel like personally I feel like it's totally natural. You know, it's really For anyone who's familiar with Mindfulness, you know, the you know, there's a lot of stereotypes and cliches and You know, there's almost it can feel almost intimidating, like how can I, you know, be so perfect and calm all the time? Except that mindfulness is really the opposite of Uh or the intention is really the opposite of that. The intention is recognizing that Things in life can be pretty challenging and uncertain and we're never gonna be perfect. So the practice of mindfulness is really about managing uh real life and A lot of the premise of mindfulness to me is is really exactly what most parents would benefit from or need.
So the core assumption is that things are gonna be uncertain and challenging, which is really true for all parents. And You know, on some level a lot of our day to day Resilience relies on our just helping build the traits that help us manage, you know, that real life situation.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is Dr. Mark Bertin’s background and why is he qualified to talk about child development?
0:00–24:17
2
What practical strategies does the book *How Children Thrive* offer for building resilience?
24:17–30:02
3
How does executive function develop from early childhood into adulthood?
30:02–32:46
4
Why is executive function considered the “CEO” of the brain and how does it affect daily life?
32:46–39:52
5
How does Dr. Bertin define resilience for children and why is it important for parents?
39:52–42:22
Speakers
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