TPP 195: The Conscious Discipline Methodology, with Dr. Becky Bailey
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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Every child needs connection. Every child. And you have to find how to reach that child and some of the children. You're going to have to find the key to get through. You have to get through all the sensory stimulation. You have to get through all this other stuff. But you have got to find a way to make a connection with that child. And once you get that connection, they have to have a felt sense of safety. Once they have those two ingredients, all of us will start to blossom.
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 in this episode, I'm excited to be bringing to the show Dr. Becky Bailey, an award-winning author, speaker, educator, and expert in childhood education and developmental psychology. For more than 20 years, Dr. Bailey has been a pioneer in the movement to change the way children, and in particular, differently wired children, are treated. Many parents and teachers in the TILT community know her as the founder of Conscious Discipline, an evidence-based, comprehensive approach to behavior using the principles of safety, connection, and problem solving.
Initially conceived for classrooms, the conscious discipline techniques are now used all over the world in classrooms and homes alike, leading a revolution of the heart rooted in brain science. This conversation is full of the kind of powerful reframes and helpful tips that will leave you not only thinking about your parenting differently, but will give you step-by-step changes you can begin implementing immediately in your interactions with your child. I'm so grateful for the opportunity to have this conversation with Dr. Bailey, who generously shared so much wisdom with us. And now here is my conversation with Dr.
Well, thank you. It's great to be here.
I'm excited to have you on the show. I've been really diving into your work. I've been familiar with your work for months and months and months and beyond. And I was so excited when you agreed to be on the show and honestly, a little overwhelmed because you work in so many different areas and there's so much to share. But today, I would love to really introduce my listeners to your Conscious Discipline model and that work that you began, I think you recently, a couple of years ago, had your 20-year anniversary. Is that correct?
Yeah. So we're moving on to 25 years. Of course, I've been doing it for, oh gosh, I don't know that I want to tell everybody that, but probably, you know, I think it's my life's work. So since I was born.
What is Conscious Discipline and why was it created?
Yeah.
Wow. Yeah.
Well, I actually would love to, I know that you were an educator, and I'm curious if you could share with us what inspired you to create this model. You know, was it something that happened over time as you were a teacher? Or tell us about that shift in your work.
I think as I looked out into the world, there was a lot of challenging behaviors that children exhibited that were deemed as the view that they were seen as was either something's wrong with the child or they're being very disrespectful, oppositional. And it was that view that I thought was inhibiting any chance of a mindset growth in that area. And it's also very easy to see that the same kids who seem to be marginalized or get in trouble are the same kids over and over and over and over again. So whatever you're doing isn't working. And as a teacher, I just kept saying there's got to be a better way. I mean, we're just not approaching this correctly. And then around, before I was a teacher, but around age 17, so I was right in high school my senior year, I had a car wreck.
And a near-death experience, actually, but I also had brain damage. So with that brain damage, there were significant workarounds I had to do in my head because the wiring had shifted for me. And I was kind of left on my own to figure that out. No one could help me figure out how to achieve my goals. with the way I was maneuvering. So put all that together and over time and a lot of studying, a lot of insight and a lot of work with children and a lot of work with parents and here's how I got here.
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