TPP 197: Dayna Abraham Helps Parents Calm the Chaos
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
42 min
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4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
You can create the best plan and try to have the best mindset and the best thoughts possible. We're humans and we're dealing with complex, differently wired kids. We're gonna mess up. We're gonna not get it right. And so I wanna encourage anyone that's listening to just strive for that progress just a little bit better and a little bit better each time you implement your plan.
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 Rieber, and my guest today is Dana Abraham, founder of the popular blog Lemon Lime Adventures and author of The Super Kids Activity Guide to Conquering Every Day. As a former teacher and as a differently wired mom of a Differently wired child, Dana is passionate about helping parents and educators recognize and celebrate the unique superpowers of out-of-the-box kids. Her latest venture is Calm the Chaos, a framework for parents to change their approach to behavior by understanding plus empowering the kids in their lives.
In our conversation today, we discuss the importance of understanding how sensory processing affects us all, Dana's own journey of coming to terms with being a differently wired parent, and walk through a detailed real life application of how her four-step approach can help parents go from chaos to calm. And now here is my conversation with Dana. Hello, Dina. Welcome to the podcast. Hello, I'm so excited to be here. I'm excited to have you. I first was introduced to your work through Lem and Lyme Adventures back when I started tilting. You were in this ecosystem in this space supporting parents of differently wired kids. And so I'm excited to learn more and to share more about your work with my audience.
So to get started, give us a little bit of a personal introduction, who you are as a woman, as a As a mom, as a family member, who are you?
Yeah, absolutely. So that is a loaded question, right? Um so um from a professional standpoint, I am the founder of Lim and Lime Adventures, like you said, a popular parenting blog and also the founder of Calm the Chaos, which is a program where we help parents of out-of-the-box kids um become experts in their own kids so they can teach their kids to be experts in themselves. But it hasn't always been that crystal clear. Uh so I um started in this world, like you said, when you found me and I actually found you, I think I might have been one of your very first listeners actually. And uh, because I came across and you were still coming up with the manifesto and you were still coming up with the name and you just like popped up on my in my world and I was like, ooh, what is this?
Yes. Um and Asher and my son are very similar ages. And so I was immediately drawn. To you. And so I started my blog about six years ago. And before that, I was a national board certified teacher. I was in the classroom, had been there for twelve years. Um, and favorite kiddos were those kids that came with a long list of, you know, a paper trail and all the teachers knew them in the teacher's lounge. And you know the ones, right? Many of our kids here are those kids where the teachers know them by name. And those were my favorite kiddos. And then I had my own son, and he was uh, you call him differently wired, I call him out of the box. You know, he just didn't really fit any of the things I had learned.
as a teacher, as a parent in all of my research myself. And Uh once he went to school, he really struggled. He was kicked out of preschool. Um, kindergarten, he was in trouble a lot. Um, super active, um, always getting calls from school. Um, twice exceptional, but I didn't know that term at the time. But he tested gifted and then was really struggling in other areas and so it was really baffling what was happening. And then by first grade and second grade he was uh suspended more days than he was in school. And so that's when I decided to stop teaching. I had decided to stop teaching already because I wanted to open my own school eventually, project based and directed towards differently wired kids that learn differently and need that out-of-the-box teaching methods.
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–8:11
2
What is Dayna Abraham’s background and why did she start Lemon Lime Adventures?
8:11–25:32
3
How did Dayna realize her son was differently‑wired and what early signs did she notice?
25:32–38:54
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What are sensory‑processing challenges and how did they shape Dayna’s parenting approach?
38:54–42:45
Speakers
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