TPP 247: Dr. Jody Carrington on Lifting Up Educators, Parents, Caregivers, and Anyone Else Who Supports Children
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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6 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
When you're exhausted and overwhelmed and feeling like nobody has seen your own personal child, it becomes very difficult to have anything left to give to the people who the institutions that are supposed to be serving them. But what becomes so critically in this moment is understanding that that is where our power lies.
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 am so excited to introduce you to my guest for this episode, Dr. Jodi Carrington, a clinical psychologist, speaker, and author based in Alberta, Canada. Jodi has spent most of her career working with children and families who have experienced trauma and has learned that kids can only be as okay as the adults in their lives are okay. The result of Jodi's insights is her wonderful book, Kids These Days, a game plan for reconnecting with those we teach, lead, and love. I recently came across her book and not only did I absolutely love how accessible and real it is, I knew I needed to introduce her to the Tilt community.
As you'll hear, Jodi has one of those joyfully infectious personalities, but even more than that, she offers powerfully grounded insights and strategies for parents, caregivers, and teachers to connect with and show up for our kids and each other. It's nearly impossible to not be inspired by Jodi's hopeful, humorous, and humanizing approach. I hope you get as much out of this conversation as I did. And now here is my conversation with Jodi. Hello, Jodi. Welcome to the podcast.
Hello, Debbie. Thank you so much for having me.
I am really looking forward to this conversation. I was just mentioning before I hit record that I don't even know how your book got on my radar, but I instantly connected with the title. It's called Kids These Days, A Game Plan for Reconnecting with Those We Teach, Lead, and Love. And then I devoured it and really just enjoyed it. So I can't wait to talk more about that. And before we get into... heart of our conversation. Can you just introduce yourself? Tell us a little bit about your story and why you do the work you do.
Yeah, I'd love to. Okay, I'm coming to you from a small town in Alberta, Canada. And I grew up in a small town. And it was actually a teacher that changed my life. There was it's still to this day a K to 12 school. And I can tell you the first and last name of every teacher I ever had. I knew where they lived. I knew, you know, all the things that they were doing. And there was probably 22 of us that started kindergarten together and the same 19 of us that graduated together. OK, so everybody knew everything about everybody. And I often tell the story because I remember where Mrs. Holly Nordstrom was standing the day that the most popular kid in our class was killed. I remember what she was wearing. I remember what she said.
I have no idea,
you
know, what the details were, but I remember how she made us feel. And I remember thinking as a 16-year-old kid in that moment, that's what I want to do for the rest of my life. I want to make people feel the way Mrs. Nordstrom made us feel. And it's funny because I spend a lot of my time now talking to educators, talking to people who influence little people. And it all comes back to this. I do not remember a single thing about the literacy and the numeracy that woman taught me. I do not remember a specific lesson. But I remember everything. what she wore. I remember how she smelled. I mean, that sounds a little creepy, but it's true. I wore wild musk from the IDAs, um, pharmacy until I was 23, because I just wanted to be like her.
And so, uh, and I decided I want to be a psychologist. So I told my dad that he was so freaking excited that I would get out of small town, Alberta, that he was like, okay, I'll pay for it. And so he didn't know it was going to take me 13 years to get a PhD. Anyway, so I went on and I did an externship during my undergrad degree with our national police force called the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–8:17
2
What inspired Dr. Jodi Carrington to become a child psychologist?
8:17–14:45
3
How did Dr. Carrington’s early career experiences shape her focus on trauma?
14:45–18:11
4
Why does Dr. Carrington say “reconnection is hard” and how can we practice it?
18:11–27:41
5
What is the core message of the book *Kids These Days*?
27:41–29:00
6
How can educators re‑frame “bad” kids and build empathy in the classroom?
29:00–44:33
Speakers
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