TPP 243: Debbie Reber Answers Listeners Questions About Regulation, Remote Learning, and More
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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Why is prioritizing kids' mental and emotional well‑being the #1 focus for parents?
Right now, prioritizing our kids' mental and emotional well-being, that's it. That is number one above everything else. We want to be their soft place to land. We want to have that strong, loving, connected relationship with them. 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. I get a lot of questions emailed to me about parenting and supporting our awesome kids. And while I would love to respond to every single one, it is just not possible or I would spend all of my time replying to emails. So I've decided to record a periodic solo cast episodes where I'll answer some of the more common questions I get from people in the Tilt community.
And as part of that, I feel compelled to include a disclaimer. And that is to say that I... don't have the answers to everything and to all the problems that I know so many of us are experiencing. Obviously, I am in this with you, but I am happy to share what I know from my experience and training and what I've gleaned from the many parenting experts I have the opportunity to learn from and that I consider to be colleagues and friends. I'll also do my best on these episodes to share resources with you to dive deeper into the concepts that I talk about on these shows, including books you might wanna check out, other podcasts to listen to and anything else I can come up with to support you through this time.
I'll release these solo cast episodes every few months and we'll see how it goes. If you have questions that you would like me to answer for future episodes, you can either fill out the podcast suggestion form on the Tilt Parenting website, or you can email your question to me at debbie at tiltparenting.com. Again, I get a lot of emails every day. So if you write to me and you don't hear back from me, just know that I did receive it. I did read it and I will do my best to answer your question on a future episode. Before I get to those questions, most of you know that this fall I co-produced a webinar series called Parenting in Place. Well, we have a brand new eight-week winter series happening right now featuring weekly live events on topics like motivation and stress, sex and gender, raising ethical children, resiliency, and more.
The series features eight events, access to replays for anything you missed, downloadable takeaways and resources, all for one low price. Join us by registering at TiltParenting.com slash Masterclass. And now here is my special solo cast episode. Okay, I'm just going to dive right into question number one. This listener wrote, I have a question about how and when and if you should tell your child what their diagnosis is. We're waiting back on results of our evaluation for my oldest child and I will soon have to wrestle with this. We got the evaluation because he wants to go back to school, unlike my seven-year-old who was also differently wired and they had taken away his IEP in the middle of last year.
I've never gone for a diagnosis because we prefer to focus on his strengths and not label, but we need it for talking to the school and getting the right supports in place. This is such a great question. I get asked this a lot, actually, and I guess I'm going to start my answer by just saying that it's complicated. Much like some people's relationship status on Facebook, it's complicated. If we think about labels and diagnoses, especially for younger kids, they're really about identifying areas where a child could use additional accommodations or supports in order for them to thrive in school and be successful. I love that in your question, you talk about preferring to focus on strengths. And I'm sure listeners know this is very much the lens through which I suggest we see differently wired children.
So I think it's important to recognize that we do focus on strengths. And we also want to recognize that there are some very real challenges that come with all kinds of labels and diagnoses.
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