TPP 181a: Educator Zach Morris on Emotionally Supporting Children Through Difficult Periods
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
1h 6m
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What is the overall purpose of this episode and who is the guest?
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 so many things in these scenarios that you want to share with your child and so many perspectives and so many solutions. Cause you're like, I see the pathway to more wonderfulness, right? Like it's so clear to me in my adult brain. And so I just want to give it to you, but we might not get to deliver that until like so much later than I actually envision.
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 I am bringing back one of my favorite guests, Zach Morris. Zach is the Executive Director and Development of Curriculum and Instruction at Learn, Inc., a nonprofit school in Missoula, Montana, which is approaching education in a thoughtful and alternative way and with powerful results, especially for their neurodiverse students, which make up 75% of the student body. Zach is committed to the cultivation of a thriving student-centered learning community built on compassion. So Zach has been on the show twice before, once to talk about nonviolent communication and whole person learning, and another time to talk about what it takes to help our children transform their worldviews.
These were both powerful episodes. So if you are newer to the podcast, you'll definitely want to go back and listen to those as well. So I've included links to those episodes on the show notes page for today's episode. So today we're having an equally powerful conversation and one that I know is relevant to what's happening for many of our families this time of year, as the shine for the school year is wearing off or. Maybe it's long since worn off. And many of our kids are struggling in some way that we want to support, but we don't know how to best do that. So Zach provides a very powerful and tangible model for attuning to our children's experiences so we can be solid sources of emotional support and respond in ways that will fuel their own social emotional development while also respecting and honoring our own boundaries and experiences, especially when things are difficult.
It's a lot to unpack. And I should just give you a heads up right now. This is essentially a double episode. The conversation itself is about an hour long. So might I suggest you make yourself a cup of tea or put your trainers on and head out for a long walk or perhaps plan to break down your listen into two chunks. But no matter what, do listen and consider re-listening because what Zach has to share with us is powerful and worthy of our time and consideration. I hope you get a lot out of it. And a few quick announcements. We have officially hit the one and a half million download mark. So thank you so much for being a part of that milestone. It's truly remarkable to me to know that these conversations are reaching people around the world and supporting families and improving their lives.
I am marching forward to connect with even more people though, and I would love your help to keep me going. So if you enjoy this podcast and would like to make a small monthly contribution to help me cover the costs of production and the show administration, I would welcome that help. And bonus, it's easy to do. Just go to patreon.com slash tilt parenting and sign up. You can pledge 10, 5 or even $2 a month. Again, that's patreon.com slash tilt parenting. And now here is my conversation with Zach. Hello, Zach. Welcome back to the podcast.
Hey, Debbie. Thanks for having me.
Of course, I always get excited when we are going to have a conversation because I usually have many aha moments and they just bring a different quality and subject matter to the podcast than kind of our typical episodes.
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the overall purpose of this episode and who is the guest?
0:00–18:57
2
How do parents and teachers notice the early signs of waning hope in students?
18:57–36:43
3
What is co‑regulation and why is it the first step in supporting a dysregulated child?
36:43–49:33
4
Which practical tools (questions, drawings, cards) help children express their bodily sensations?
49:33–1:06:55
Speakers
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