TPP 163a: 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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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.
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, 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?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the focus of the episode and who is the guest?
0:00–8:46
2
Why did Dr. Mark Bertin write *How Children Thrive* and what does the book aim to provide parents?
8:46–14:12
3
How does Dr. Bertin define mindfulness and why is it useful for parents of differently‑wired kids?
14:12–21:16
4
What is resilience according to the guest and how can parents help kids develop it?
21:16–26:31
5
How can parents shift their children’s negativity bias using mindfulness and other strategies?
26:31–32:07
6
What is executive function, how does it develop, and why is it crucial for ADHD and autism?
32:07–37:06
7
How can parents build their own emotional resilience to support their families?
37:06–42:18
8
What practical, everyday tools does Dr. Bertin recommend for thriving kids and resilient families?
42:18–43:52
Speakers
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