TPP 250: Debbie Reber Hosts a Special Episode Celebrating 5 Years of Tilt Parenting
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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8 chapters
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Why is Tilt Parenting celebrating its five‑year anniversary and what does this milestone mean for the community?
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. This is a bit of a different episode as this week I am celebrating the five year anniversary of Tilt Parenting. I cannot believe it's been five years. It felt kinda like a big deal, and it seemed like it was the right time to reflect on the journey of this tilt community since then, and to share some thoughts from me and from others in the community. In fact, about two thirds of the way in this episode you'll hear from some friends of the show like Mona Della Hook, Amanda Morin, and Zach Morris, and Nicole Tetro about how we can continue playing a role in this movement to shift toward a society that truly sees, supports, respects, and lifts up our differently wired children.
Also, I asked friend, colleague, and executive functioners. function coach Seth Perler to share some thoughts and of course Seth over delivered and he ended up recording a special mini sode just to celebrate Tilt's five year anniversary. So I'm actually releasing that as a special bonus episode today. So be sure to download that wherever you listen to podcasts so you don't miss it. Lastly, stick around to the end of this episode for some very special messages from listeners. Thank you so much and I hope you enjoy the show. Those of you who've been with me since the very beginning know that I launched Till Parenting in April of 2016. Actually it was April 16th, to be exact. And I launched with four podcast episodes, a Facebook Live that my son, who was then eleven years old, did with me, a Facebook page with a handful of followers made up of I think my husband, my sister and my mom, and maybe a few friends, and a newsletter list comprised of pretty much the same people.
I'd also designed what I called the tilt creed, which people could download. And then the key piece of content that I launched the site with was the Tilt Parenting Manifesto. And the manifesto was really the result of the year I spent researching and dreaming and scheming before I actually launched Tilt. And I wrote that manifesto as a call to action. It was kind of my way to rally the troops. And I was driven by this goal of helping parents everywhere, parents raising kids who are neurodivergent, kids with or without a diagnosis, kids who were moving through the world in a unique way, parents like me. I wanted to help these parents get out of isolation and overwhelm and just feel an immediate sense of connection and community.
I wanted to create something that would help them find each other and feel empowered and optimistic and hopeful about the future and about the incredible potential for our children. Because so much of what existed back then for parents like us. Just felt like For lack of a better phrase, it felt like a Debbie Downer. So for the first time in several years, I went back and reread the Tilt Parenting Manifesto last week. I wanted to see if it still held up, if it still felt as true to me now as it did then. If you've been along for this ride with me for a while, you have certainly heard me talk about the core tenets of that manifesto, the idea that we as parents need to reject the current parenting paradigm because it simply is not relevant anymore.
And beyond that, it's harmful to our kids and to our families. I described it back then as a paradigm that runs rampant in nearly every school, in every town, of every state, of every country. I wrote that it's a paradigm that embraces sameness and fitting in and conformity. It's a paradigm that encourages labeling differences, prescribing medications, and implementing quick fixes for any way of being that's perceived outside the norm. I said it's a paradigm that thrives on guilt mongering, it leads with headlines like ten ways you are already screwing up your child, and it's suspicious of anyone who chooses to forge their own path. And so one of my biggest goals in creating Tilt was to be part of shifting that paradigm.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why is Tilt Parenting celebrating its five‑year anniversary and what does this milestone mean for the community?
0:02–6:07
2
How did Debbie Reber launch Tilt Parenting in 2016 and what were the original core resources?
6:07–11:35
3
What is the Tilt Parenting Manifesto and how does it challenge the traditional parenting paradigm?
11:35–18:16
4
Which ten original steps from the manifesto (connect, open up, let go, etc.) guide parents of differently wired children?
18:16–23:43
5
What insights did community guests (Amanda Morin, Mona Della Hook, Nicole Tetro, Zach Morris) share about shifting the paradigm?
23:43–29:47
6
How is the movement toward radical self‑care, presence, and acceptance shaping the future of Tilt Parenting?
29:47–34:57
7
What new initiatives, books, and resources is Tilt Parenting planning to launch after the five‑year celebration?
34:57–39:28
8
How can listeners support Tilt Parenting through reviews, Patreon, and joining the online community?
39:28–42:39
Speakers
4 identifiedMore from Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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