TPP 301: Navigating Big Life Transitions with Differently Wired Children (a Solocast)
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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I believe deeply that there is learning and growth possible in every single experience and that these big transitions, all the ones that our family has gone through, I believe that they have provided and honestly still continue to provide a lot of opportunities to grow emotional literacy, to practice perseverance, to learn how to process difficult emotions and to learn that being really uncomfortable is survivable, to learn that we can do hard things. 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 I haven't done a solo cast in a while, but when you talk, I listen.
And this topic has been requested by many listeners. So I decided to dedicate this episode to talk about navigating big life transitions with differently wired kids. Our family has gone through our fair share of big changes, which you'll hear all about in this episode. So this is something I've spent a lot of time thinking about, especially as a parent of a differently wired kid. I know that there are some extra challenges that might come up when their routines, their environment, their life circumstances, or their supports change. And our kids are also more likely to be resistant to changes, even if we know they're beneficial in the long run. So today I'll be sharing the strategies I've personally found helpful while going through big transitions with Asher.
In this episode, I talk about key things such as why being honest when communicating with your kid is so important to help them understand and process the change, how being vulnerable can be a way to show support, how to validate our kids' feelings about the changes or transitions, and how to identify their concerns so you can make plans to address them in advance. I also talk about adjustment disorders and the kind of extra support you might need to find for your child during transitions. I hope you enjoy this episode. And if you have other themes you'd like me to cover in an upcoming solo cast episode, you can always email them to me at info at tilt parenting.com. And before I get to my solo cast, if you are newer to tilt, be sure to subscribe to my channel.
Be sure to visit Tilt Parenting online for free resources, including my free seven day differently wired challenge, which I designed to help people make some small reframes over the course of a week that can have a big impact in daily life. The first chapter of my book, differently wired, raising an exceptional child in a conventional world, which you can download for free. And my weekly newsletter, which always includes a little inspiring or actionable tidbit, highlights of upcoming events you might want to know about, and links to recent news articles about parenting neurodivergent kids. You can find all of that at TiltParenting.com. And if you are new to Tilt, I just want to welcome you. If you're raising a child who is neurodivergent in any way, and you're looking for strengths-based optimistic resources to support you on your journey, you're in the right place.
And I'm so glad you're here. Okay, so now without further ado, here is my special solo episode on navigating big transitions with Differently Wired Kids. Okay, so as I said in the introduction, this is an often requested topic. And I just decided it was time to share my thoughts on how to help our neurodivergent, differently wired, complicated kids, kids with big emotions, big experiences, process big transitions. And perhaps I should even just define what I mean by big transitions. This could be switching schools. This could be a move that could be even a move across town to a new house, to a new state. It might be to a new country, as was the case with us. This could be a change in family makeup for whatever reason.
This could be having a friend move. There are so many big transitions that we've gone through as a collective and that our kids have experienced. And certainly this is something that I personally have a lot of experience with.
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