TPP 390: Parent Lean-In — How Can We Improve Communication & Get Better Support from a Developmental Pediatrician?
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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 getting the most out of a developmental pediatrician visit?
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, it's Debbie here from Tilt Parenting. I am joined today by Margaret Webb. Margaret is not just a dear friend of mine. She was my very first parenting coach. She's also the lead parent coach in my Differently Wired Club, where she beautifully supports parents in that community. She is also the author of the wonderful new book, A Hero's Journey in Parenting, Parenting the Child You Didn't Expect When You Were Expecting, which we recently talked about on this show. So definitely go check that out if you haven't listened to that episode.
All of that to say, welcome Margaret. Thanks so much for being here. I am very excited to be here, as always. Okay, well let's dive right into the question for today. The question is, do you have any tips on getting the most out of your time with a developmental pediatrician? My child is seven years old and we've been seeing a developmental pediatrician twice a year since he was four. We get at least an hour with her when we see her, and she's been available by phone when needed. Our son is fairly resistant to speaking during appointments, so we end up doing a lot of talking in front of him. This doesn't always feel good. Sometimes we leave feeling like we haven't addressed the scope of our challenges, even though our developmental pediatrician is very receptive.
We plan to move forward with a neurological evaluation early in the summer to understand if he is autistic. He's been diagnosed with anxiety and avoidant restrictive food intake disorder. Occupational and play therapies have been unsuccessful for us. Okay, so we're gonna talk about getting the most out of your time with a developmental pediatrician. We're gonna take a quick break and we'll get to our answers. Okay, so Margaret, I'd love to hear from you first on tips you have on getting the most out of your time with a developmental pediatrician. What came up for you when you first heard this question?
Yeah, so the first thing that came up was the a curiosity around is it just you or are you going with a partner or somebody who
It might be an opportunity to spend the first twenty minutes, thirty minutes where your child is in the room where they're being evaluated or the developmental pediatrician can do their exam or the the consult or whatever that whatever that looks like, but then you have, you know, another person is able to take the child out so that you can have a conversation um based on, you know, there's Talking in front of him, which isn't feeling great. Uh so keeping that in mind and seeing if there's any flexibility, any possibility to have somebody to take him out, so that you can discuss things that you want to where you're not Feeling like you need to you know, kind of cushion things or be be careful about things that you're sharing.
So there's there's that part. And regardless of what it is, I I recommend so highly to write down and spend a little bit of time before each you know, whether it's a developmental pediatrician or, you know, whatever kind of expert appointment you're going to, I would take time to write down what your intentions are, what your wants are, what your needs are, what your curiosities are, what your noticings are.
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Chapters
3 chapters
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What is the listener’s question about getting the most out of a developmental pediatrician visit?
0:02–5:35
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How can parents prepare a written agenda to maximize the limited appointment time?
5:35–10:20
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Why is it helpful to have someone take the child out of the room for a private conversation?
10:20–14:26
Speakers
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