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ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

EP. 191: Raising Differently Wired ADHD Kids with Debbie Reber

ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Tracy Otsuka

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Parenting activist and author Debbie Reber had a difficult time with the structure of school growing up, so when her son Asher also started struggling to have his unique learning needs supported in the classroom, she knew she had to do things differently. Incorporating expert advice and a strengths-based philosophy, Debbie started creating the resources that she wishes she’d had when she was younger, and, after much collaborating and fine-tuning, she found an approach to teaching that supported Asher’s ADHD learning needs and encouraged emotional intelligence and self-understanding. What started as an alternative approach to schooling for her son eventually transformed into Tilt Parenting, an educational resource aimed at helping parents who are raising differently wired children do so from a place of confidence, connection, and joy. Debbie founded Tilt Parenting because she knows how isolating it is trying to navigate a system that wasn’t built for differently wired brains and she wanted to help other parents avoid the same painful roadblocks she and her husband encountered. For all the parents of differently wired children who are feeling hopeless about finding the right supports, Debbie’s story will give you encouragement that a different way of parenting and educating is out there and possible. Resources: Website: Instagram: @tiltparenting Twitter: @tiltparenting Facebook: Photo credit: Jacquelyn Tierney

Transcript

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0:00.0

We can feel like we're failures, like if we're comparing ourselves to the other parents

0:06.3

at school pickup or, you know, we see these kids in our neighborhood who are having these

0:10.7

great play dates and their kids seem to be perfect humans navigating the world without

0:16.9

any problems, then we can start to wonder, what am I doing wrong?

0:20.7

Like what is wrong with me?

0:22.0

I'm a huge failure.

0:24.1

And so finding people who really understand what you're going through is everything.

0:29.9

And can really just turn the tide for so many of us.

0:38.8

Thomas Edison, Richard Branson, John F. Kennedy, Mozart, Michael Jordan, Will Smith.

0:48.3

That sounds like a list of highly successful titans in a variety of locations.

0:54.2

Why is it that we rarely hear that they have or have ADHD?

1:00.4

And you know what we hear even less about?

1:06.1

Serena Williams, Emma Watson, Mel Robbins, Woopy Goldberg, Agatha Christie, Erin Brockovich,

1:15.0

Cher.

1:16.0

Yeah, the successful women navigating ADHD.

1:20.5

And that's exactly why I started this podcast, ADHD for smart ass women.

1:26.2

I'm your host, Tracy Otsuka.

1:28.4

I'm a lawyer, not a doctor, a lifelong student, now a coach.

1:33.2

I'm also the creator of your ADHD brain is AOK, a system that helps people like you figure

1:40.6

out what they should do with their life.

1:43.2

And we're here today to talk ADHD, your strengths, your symptoms, your workarounds, and how

1:49.3

you proudly stand out instead of trying to fit in.

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