TPP 175a: Kathryn Haydon Talks About Creatively Parenting
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is the purpose of this re‑released conversation on creatively parenting differently wired kids?
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.
There's this inertia that keeps us from thinking differently and doing things differently and looking at ourselves and using our strengths. It's just life. And many things about life keep us from doing that. So we have to break through that inertia of no in order to think differently, in order to come up with new solutions, new ideas, new innovations, and to grow.
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 today we are going to be getting creative. Specifically, we're going to be talking about why it's crucial to our well being and that of our differently wired children that we identify and exercise our own creative strengths. To talk about this, I'm bringing back to the podcast, Katherine Hayden. She is a creativity and innovation strategist, and she has written and spoken widely on creative learning and the secret strengths of outlier thinkers. She's also the founder of Sparkativity, which is one of the things we talked about when I had her on the show back in year one.
We had this really fantastic conversation about the connection between creativity and neurodiversity. So actually, if you want to listen to that one, it's a really good one. You can find it at tiltparenting.com slash session 47. And I will leave a link to that on the show notes page. But in today's episode, we're going to be talking a little bit about her brand new book. It's called The Non-Obvious Guide to Being More Creative. And we're really going to look at how we can activate and consistently tap into our own creativity and why that is so critical to our success as parents and caregivers. Catherine is also going to share some specific tips on exactly how we can do this. This is one of those just really insightful, fascinating conversations.
It's a different way to think about our role as parents and caregivers. So I hope you get a lot out of it. And now here is my conversation with Catherine Hayden about creatively parenting our differently wired kids. Hey, Katherine, welcome to the podcast. Hi, Debbie. It's great to talk to you. It's great to have you back. This is, I don't know what number this is going to be, but it's going to be up probably in the high 170s, low 180s. And we talked probably in my first year of having the Tilt Parenting podcast, and it was such a great conversation. And I'm excited to just catch up and hear what you've been up to, but then have this new conversation that's really aimed at parents instead of kids. So can you take just a few minutes to introduce yourself, who you are in the world and what you do?
Yes, absolutely. So my name is Catherine Hayden, as you've introduced me, and I am a creativity and innovation strategist, an author and a speaker. And my interest has always been with regard to learning and and business. And I really say now that I work at the intersection of learning and work. And whether it's work as a parent, whether it's work at a job or in our entrepreneurial work, projects that we have, I study and work with people to harness their best thinking and their creative thinking, which is their best thinking, in order to do their work more powerfully and productively. So I've worked with students in the past for many years, and this has led me to the whole trajectory of life and moving from working with kids to training teachers and to working with businesses, business people, professionals in all capacities.
And that's where my focus is right now.
And so you also have a new book that has just come out. Could you just take a minute to tell us about that?
Yes. It's called The Non-Obvious Guide to Being More Creative No Matter Where You Work.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the purpose of this re‑released conversation on creatively parenting differently wired kids?
0:00–11:06
2
How does Kathryn Haydon define creativity and why is it important for parents?
11:06–23:18
3
What are the main ideas behind Kathryn’s new book *The Non‑Obvious Guide to Being More Creative*?
23:18–31:02
4
How can parents break the ‘inertia of no’ and start thinking differently?
31:02–37:38
5
What practical strategies help parents model creativity for their differently wired children?
37:38–42:43
6
How does replacing ‘no’ with ‘why’ unlock creative problem‑solving in daily parenting?
42:43–42:48
Speakers
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