Parenting Unfiltered: Unlocking How Your Kids’ Brain Works
Cat & Nat Unfiltered
Cat & Nat
5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
This is a personal story. Everyone's story is different. This is our story. Kids are masters at being chameleons. They don't want to be different or learn differently. They are very good at hiding their struggles, until one day the wheels come off. Teachers and school systems are not always equipped to fully understand learning disabilities. But you don’t have to rely on the system to teach your child how they learn. Understanding your child’s IEP, their brain, and giving them tools to navigate their challenges can help give them a roadmap to succeed on their own terms. We celebrate effort over perfection, understand gaps instead of shaming them, and help our kids grow confident. All we want to do is protect their confidence. You can get back everything else, but you can't get back confidence.
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| 0:00.0 | not all teachers understand learning challenges or learning disabilities. |
| 0:07.7 | And kids are masters at trying to chameleon and they don't want to be different. |
| 0:13.5 | And they look quote unquote fine, but often they hold it together to a certain point. |
| 0:17.6 | And then the wheels just come off. |
| 0:19.3 | And the whole time you have a kid with a |
| 0:21.9 | learning challenge, all you want to do is keep their confidence up. |
| 0:28.2 | Natalie, what do I do? |
| 0:31.5 | It opens giddy, giddy. Okay, guys, it is a Monday podcast and I'm doing this solo because none, I, um, while |
| 0:39.7 | we're not together right now because we have so much to do before the holidays and not leaves |
| 0:43.7 | early, uh, in December like the 20th. So I promised you this podcast from stories where we |
| 0:53.1 | talked about sort of learning disabilities and learning challenges. |
| 0:56.0 | And I don't talk about it a lot because, well, first of all, my kids' journeys are my |
| 0:59.0 | kids' journeys. |
| 1:00.3 | And it's just sort of something we've lived with for so long that it doesn't, I don't know, |
| 1:06.4 | stand out is something to me that's that big of a deal because it's sort of an everyday thing. |
| 1:12.0 | But then when I talked about it on stories, I feel like it helped so many people. |
| 1:16.7 | And I know a lot of people struggle with the conversations. |
| 1:19.1 | You know, we've been told not to share that he is an IEP because schools won't take him. |
| 1:23.9 | We've been told that people see learning disabilities as a challenge and that |
| 1:30.0 | his learning profile just as something you shouldn't make people aware of. And I'm like, |
| 1:36.4 | I listened for a while and I'm like, honest to God, I think it makes kids more resilient and |
| 1:43.3 | it makes them really amazing humans. |
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