TPP 197a: Dayna Abraham Helps Parents Calm the Chaos
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is the overall focus of the Tilt Parenting episode with Dayna Abraham?
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Hey, it's Debbie. Today I'm sharing a Playback Friday episode. It's a powerful conversation from deep in the Tilt Parenting podcast archives. Unless you're a longtime listener, you likely haven't heard this one yet. And even if you have, I bet you'll get something completely different from it this time around.
You can create the best plan and try to have the best mindset and the best thoughts possible.
But
We're humans and we're dealing with complex, differently wired kids. We're going to mess up. We're going to not get it right. And so I want to 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 Reber, 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 relife application of how her four-step approach can help parents go from chaos to calm. And now here is my conversation with Dana. Hello, Dana. Welcome to the podcast. Hello.
How does Dayna introduce herself and her background as a teacher, homeschooler, and founder of Lemon Lime Adventures?
I'm so excited to be here. I'm excited to have you. I first was introduced to your work through Lemon Lime 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 mom, as a family member, who are you?
Yeah, absolutely. So that is a loaded question, right? So from a professional standpoint, I am the founder of Lemon 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 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. So I 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 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 in my world.
And I was like, ooh, what is this? 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 12 years. And favorite kiddos were those kids that came with a long list of 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, you call him differently wired. I call him out of the box. He just didn't really fit any of the things I had learned.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the overall focus of the Tilt Parenting episode with Dayna Abraham?
0:00–2:29
2
How does Dayna introduce herself and her background as a teacher, homeschooler, and founder of Lemon Lime Adventures?
2:29–11:11
3
What early signs led Dayna to realize her son was differently‑wired and how did that shape her parenting journey?
11:11–18:24
4
How does sensory processing affect children (and adults) and why is it important for parents to understand it?
18:24–26:21
5
What are weighted vests, blankets, and other sensory tools, and how have they moved from niche to mainstream?
26:21–35:44
6
What is the four‑step “Calm the Chaos” framework (Connect → Understand → Empower) and how can parents apply it?
35:44–44:52
Speakers
1 identifiedMore from Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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