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Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Alisa Pressman and today I'm speaking with

Dr. Kelly Frieden about her new book Advanced Parenting, Advice for Helping Kids

Through Diagnosis, Differences, and Mental Health Challenges. This conversation is for you

if you are thinking about currently in the midst of or have a child who's experienced

really anything on the spectrum of atypical. And when I say atypical, I don't mean that there's

anything wrong with them. I'm talking about more like divergence from the norm.

And this can mean a learning difference. This can mean mental health challenge. This can mean

a physical health diagnosis. We're also talking about siblings in the context of having

a higher need sibling. I'm saying the higher need in quotes that you can't see that.

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Podcast this month's finishing up the mindfulness for busy parents. And then we're moving on

to next month's premium all about sleep, sleep challenges, and supporting good sleep.

So I was originally inspired to write advanced parenting because as a child, I had my own challenge

with childhood cancer. And growing up, I saw the toll that my diagnosis took on the rest of my

family. How my parents had so much additional worry and work and and so much stress that they had

to cope with. And I think it was because I was aware of that sort of ripple effect of a child's

diagnosis on the rest of the family that when I became a pediatrician, and I would have sometimes

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