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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
31 min
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6 chapters
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What is the episode’s introduction and who is the guest?
Hey, it's Debbie. Every now and then I like to share conversations from other shows that I think you guys would really connect with. So today I'm bringing you an episode from a newer show from Understood called Everyone Gets a Juice Box. It's hosted by Jessica Shaw, who spent years interviewing celebrities but is now turning her attention to something much closer to home: raising kids who learn and think differently. The chaos, the small wins, those moments that that feel impossibly hard and the ones that surprise you. What I like about this show is that it makes room for the parts of parenting that don't get neatly wrapped up, those parts we are so familiar with. And actually, for this episode I'm sharing with you, I am the one being interviewed.
So I'm gonna be sharing the story of how our family ended up homeschooling, something that I honestly never thought we'd choose. If you have ever found yourself rethinking a decision you once felt certain about or stepping into a version of parenting you didn't quite expect. I think this conversation is gonna feel familiar to you. So here's the episode of Everyone Gets a Juice Box. I hope you enjoy it. I think I had known for several years that really this was the best thing for my child, at least for the time being, was homeschooling. Just because of the way my kid experiences the classroom dynamic and everything that's the demands and expectations of a traditional school, it was always gonna be hard.
I just wasn't ready to accept that that was my fate.
Has anyone ever said to you, you should homeschool your kid? And you thought, um, what? That happened to my guest today, Debbie Reber. And when another parent told her that, she thought, yeah, that's a hard pass. So her kid went to three schools between kindergarten and second grade, got lots of services, some things went well, others didn't. There were calls, complaints, frustrations. And victories. Then something happened that, as she says, forced her hand. So Debbie's husband got a job offer in the Netherlands. It was already stressful moving across the world, which her kid wasn't so happy about. And the idea of finding the right school there and starting over in another language no less, Debbie's hard pass took a hard turn.
This is Everyone Gets a Juice Box. I'm Jessica Shaw and this is Debbie's story.
We spent a year and a half in a private school for gifted kids. And the first half of that experience we kept being told, We've got it. We get these kids. These are complex kids. This is what we do. And my advice or input wasn't really appreciated. And so when that crashed and burned halfway through first grade, we moved to another very small private school where my child was very supported and appreciated. uh and loved and was super disruptive in that environment and it was just taking too much teacher time. So by second grade we moved into public school and part of my thinking was, well, they can't kick my child out of public school. They have to meet my kids' needs.
Why did Debbie and her family decide to start homeschooling?
And then we had an IEP. And so I it was a magnet gifted program full-time within the public school system. So if anything was gonna I felt like this had the best shot.
And then at what point did you realize, uh, no, that best shot is not a possible shot?
The whole year was challenging. The the teacher was great and the principal was super cool. My kid spent a lot of time in the principal's office and they became very close friends. And so, you know, there was the support there, but the speech language pathologists and the OTs and other people who were pulling my kid out for services and things, I got a lot of feedback that it was continuing to be challenging and it was a lot of social stuff and just So much dysregulation and that seemed to be increasing. Was there
a particularly horrible moment that sticks out in your mind of like, uh, this something had to change?
Yeah, I mean at the the first school there were a lot of phone calls and it usually came because of, you know, my child getting dysregulated in in the classroom.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the episode’s introduction and who is the guest?
0:00–3:07
2
Why did Debbie and her family decide to start homeschooling?
3:07–8:48
3
How did a job offer in the Netherlands force a homeschooling decision?
8:48–14:29
4
What challenges did the child face in traditional schools and why did they fail?
14:29–18:56
5
Which classroom incident made Debbie realize homeschooling was necessary?
18:56–23:59
6
How did working with a parent coach change Debbie’s homeschooling approach?
23:59–31:19
Speakers
1 identifiedMore from Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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TPP 522: A Whole Child Approach to ADHD with Phil Boucher, M.D.
TPP 091a: A Conversation With Steve Silberman About His Book “Neurotribes”
TPP 521: A Conversation with Dr. Peter Gray About Restoring Childhood
TPP 253a: Advocate and Author Jonathan Mooney on Why Normal Sucks
TPP 520: Dr. Özgür Bolat on Why Rewards Backfire and the Real Science of Motivating Kids