TPP 244: Dr. Michele Borba on How to Help Kids Thrive in an Anxious World
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is the central premise of Dr. Michele Borba’s book *Thrivers*?
Thrivers are made, not born. Once you realize you have power and control over this, mom and dad, it means you're going to change your whole parenting outlook because you realize, my gosh, what a gift I can give my child. The greatest gift, because he's going to use this the rest of his life.
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. My guest for this episode is internationally recognized educational psychologist Dr. Michelle Borba. She also happens to be a friend of mine and she is fantastic. Michelle is one of those guests I've been wanting to bring onto the show for a while now, so I am thrilled to finally have her on. And it could not come at a better time. Her new book, Thrivers, The Surprising Reason Why Some Kids Struggle and Others Shine, is packed with simple strategies, practical ideas, and step-by-step advice to help kids thrive.
And it is the book we all need right now. Michelle's name is familiar, it may be because she is a regular contributor to The Today Show and is the author or co-author of a number of best selling parenting books, including The Big Book of Parenting Solutions, 12 Simple Secrets Real Moms Know, Unselfie, and more. In this conversation, Michelle and I talk about what it takes for a child to thrive, looking at seven particular character traits. Explore what we as parents can do to help our child develop the resilience they need to become self-actualized adults. Yes, even in spite of a global pandemic. I loved having this conversation with Michelle and the energy and optimism she brings to this moment in time.
I hope you enjoy it too. And now here is my conversation with Michelle. Hello Michelle. Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Tilt Parenting Podcast.
Oh, thank you. I'm so glad to be here.
I'm so excited to talk about your amazing new book. It's so good and it's so timely for right now. But before we get into that, I always have guests tell me a little bit about their story and you have such an incredible career and a an incredible body of work. But I would love to hear about kind of your why, your personal why for the work that you do in the world.
My personal why is probably forty years back. I started out as a special education teacher and I always worried, as we all do, about some kids because they were facing such adversity. But I kept seeing that some of them were struggling a little less, even though they all seemed to have very much difficulties. And along the way I worked in almost every grade level and uh I began to see the same thing. But Debbie, my I had to write this book was when I started doing interviews of teens. Just prior to the pandemic, and I asked them point blank, a hundred of them on one-on-one interviews, I hear you're the most stressed-out generation on record, what's causing it? Every kid said we are, and every kid said we feel like we're running on empty.
I said, why? And many of them said it's I think it's because we're feel like we're being raised as products, not human beings, and we're missing the skills on how to be human. That's when I realized they're missing the skills on how to thrive. And that's what our kids need.
Yes, so much. And just this idea of resilience seems to be this elusive quality, I think, that we're all chasing. And I we're talking about it so much now because we're wondering what What does this pandemic mean? Um, is it gonna result in a more resilient generation? And that's why again, I just feel like your book is so timely. And I will also just say that you had said you were done writing books when your last book came out. So um But this book just had to be
This was such an extreme pressing need driven by kids that I had to. The other thing I kept seeing, Debbie, is that this thing on resilience is uh really being touted to us as a myth. It's not scientifically based. And so we're going the wrong framework. We all want a resilient kid, there's no doubt about that.
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