TPP 379: Parent Lean-In — Should We Move to Give Our Kids Access to More Nature
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is the listener’s question about moving to a more nature‑rich environment?
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I'm Debbie Rieber and welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I get a lot of questions from listeners looking for help navigating complex situations with their kids. So in this new mini episode format, I'll be answering listener questions, sometimes all on my own, sometimes with one of the parent coaches from the differently wired club, and sometimes with an author or expert who's become a trusted resource. Think of these bite-sized, short and sweet parent lean-in episodes as a quick check-in. one answer featuring strategies, tips, or reframes that can support you in your parenting world.
To submit a question for a parent lean-in episode, just go to tiltparenting.com slash lean in. That's tiltparenting.com slash L-E-A-N-I-N. Alright, here's today's episode. Hey everybody. Joining me for today's Parent Lean In episode is educator and friend of the pod, Zach Morris of Alive at Learn. Zach specializes in working with parents and young adults who are navigating in the complex dynamics of neurodivergent experiences. Zach is uniquely equipped to serve families with profiles of autism, especially PDA, families that are navigating trauma, and families in need of healing and and repairing relationships. And he's also a parent coach in my differently wired pub. So hello, Zach. Thanks for being here.
Hi, Debbie, thanks for having me.
course. I'm always happy to glean wisdom from you. So this question that got sent into us is an interesting one. It goes as follows. I think my question is dependent on so many variables, but I'm curious to know whether parents have found a benefit to moving to somewhere where there is more space. Is there some general wisdom or expert advice? We live in London with family nearby, but we are agonizing over whether a move to somewhere with a garden would benefit our family. Our children all love being outside. And my main motivation is that being outdoors is great for mental health. And that's the ugly beast I predict will keep rearing its head within my family for many years to come. So the context, this is a listener who has two fantastic girls, an eight-year-old autistic girl with PDA profile, a seven-year-old who is currently experiencing emotionally based school avoidance.
And But with no diagnosis yet and an autistic three year old. So I can start with this one. I have a couple of thoughts and I'll just say up front that I definitely have heard from families multiple times who have up and moved to support their family, whether that's like because they need to escape from certain family members or because they need a different school environment or because they need a completely different uh vibe in their environment for their kids, nervous system regulation and mental health and all of those things. So you wouldn't be alone. We moved, you know, many of you who've listened to our this show for a long time know that we moved uh from Seattle to Amsterdam when my kiddo was nine.
And that kind of completely reset the dynamic in our family. It reset everybody's nervous systems and it it changed things for us. Of course, we've now moved back. to New York City, which has also been a big learning curve for all of us because this is not a very calm place and I've learned a lot through this uh shift. But anyway, just kind of putting that out there. So the things I would be thinking about are you know, getting really curious about what your kids' triggers are and Being really attuned to what their nervous systems need, like in terms of an environment, like how is it sound things are sensitive to energy?
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