TPP 301a: 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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8 chapters
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What big life transitions are common for families with differently wired children?
Hey, it's Debbie. To help get ready for summer break, travel and vacations, playback Friday episodes during the month of May, we'll be focused on navigating big breaks and family getaways with our neurodivergent kids. Let the prepping and planning begin. 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. 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. So today I'll be sharing the strategies I've personally found helpful while going through big transitions with Asher. I hope you enjoyed 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 infotilkparenting.com. Okay, so 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. So we, my little family here, we've been through a lot of big transitions. We moved schools and elementary school two times. We moved from Seattle to the Netherlands when Asher was nine.
We then moved back to the US when Asher was 14. We moved to New Jersey.
Why is honest, age‑appropriate communication crucial during big changes?
Six months later, it moved to Brooklyn. So that was a lot of transitioning in a very short period of time. And then we A big transition of going from homeschooling, which we did for six years, to starting high school in a new city in ninth grade. So again, a lot of hard won wisdom here, a lot of lived experience navigating big transitions. And before I get to strategies, I have a lot of strategies to share. But I just want to say this up front. Transitions are hard. Big life changes are hard. This is hard stuff. These big transitions have challenged our family a lot. If you've lived through these, you know. What I'm talking about. I personally have felt regret. I have felt fear about the number of big transitions that our family has gone through.
I've been concerned about how those have created additional challenges for my child, whether they were the right thing. Some of them were our choice, some of them were not. And so this is definitely something I have spent a lot of time thinking about and processing. processing and trying to understand, and most importantly, trying to support my child through while also taking care of myself. And to throw on top of that, 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.
to learn that being really uncomfortable is survivable. To learn that we can do hard things, to become more resilient. And by the way, I'm talking about for all of us, everyone in my family, not just for Asher.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What big life transitions are common for families with differently wired children?
0:00–2:42
2
Why is honest, age‑appropriate communication crucial during big changes?
2:42–6:03
3
What should parents share (and not share) with their child about a transition?
6:03–9:37
4
How can parents effectively validate their child’s big emotions and thoughts?
9:37–12:56
5
Why is it important for parents to do their own emotional work during transitions?
12:56–16:54
6
What is an adjustment disorder and when should a family seek extra support?
16:54–21:09
7
How does parental vulnerability help children cope with big changes?
21:09–24:35
8
What strategies create new routines that give security after a major transition?
24:35–30:35
Speakers
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