Celebrating Neurodiversity & Parenting “Differently Wired” Kids: Voices 46 With Debbie Reber

The Mom Hour

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Parenting, Kids & Family

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🗓️ 6 March 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

If you’re parenting a child who walks through the world a little–or a lot–differently, or if you’re hoping to raise kids who see differences as opportunities instead of deficits, this conversation is for you. Sarah chats with Debbie Reber, mom of a 15-year-old “differently wired” son and leader of TiLT Parenting, a movement that both celebrates neurodiversity and recognizes the challenges that kids and parents face in navigating a world designed for one type of learner.

Sarah and Debbie discuss why grouping differences like giftedness, anxiety, sensory processing issues, dyslexia, and autism spectrum disorder all together can give parents a sense of community and advocacy in a way that keeping them separate cannot, and what parents of differently wired kids can do to keep themselves afloat during stressful times. We also take a few questions from our listener community–take a listen!

LINKS MENTIONED:

Find more information about Debbie’s podcast- The TiLT Parenting Podcast, TiLT Education, and other resources on her website TiltParenting.com
Check out Debbie’s book, Differently Wired: A Parent’s Guide to Raising an Atypical Child with Confidence and Hope (Amazon affiliate link)
Debbie mentioned Jessica Lahey’s book The Gift of Failure (Amazon affiliate link)
Debbie talked about the TiLT Together Facebook Group
Follow TiLT on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Sarah. And I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from little to
0:05.7	grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages of life. But we both know that
0:10.5	motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share tips and encouragement.
0:14.0	And remind you that it's really all going to be okay.
0:16.4	We're not experts. We're parents who've been there.
0:18.6	We're not perfect. We're real.
0:20.4	Welcome to the mom hour.
0:22.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Mom Hour. Hello everyone and welcome to the Mom Hour.
0:25.0	I am your host Sarah Powers and I'm here today without my co-host Megan Francis
0:30.0	because it's the first Friday of the month and that means it's time for an interview episode and
0:33.7	yes I have another cold and some laryngitis but don't worry in just a couple of minutes you'll
0:38.6	be transported back in time to when I did this interview when I had my normal voice.
0:43.0	So we bring you our Voices series once a month as a way to expand our podcast topics and introduce
0:48.1	you to some really smart people in the parenting space who speak on topics that don't come up
0:52.0	as often in our regular Tuesday
0:53.5	shows or that might require a more expert perspective. And today my guest is
0:58.0	Debbie Reiber. She's the founder of Tilt Parenting, which is a podcast and online
1:02.4	community for parents of what she calls
1:04.4	differently wired kids. So you'll hear us discuss that term specifically at the top of the interview,
1:09.5	but basically it means kids with various neurological differences or learning
1:13.0	differences everything from anxiety to ADHD to autism spectrum
1:16.9	disorder and sensory processing issues and also things like giftedness and
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