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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children

TPP 021a: 12-year-old Asher Talks About LIfe as a Homeschooled Kid

Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children

Debbie Reber

Education, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this special kid’s POV edition of the podcast, Asher and Debbie take listeners inside their homeschooling world. They're about to begin year four of this unexpected homeschooling journey, and after much trial and error, they’ve found their rhythm and flow (for now) for what works best in their school. Asher and Debbie talk about the transition into homeschooling, what works and what doesn’t, how Asher really feels about being homeschooling, how they co-designed they school, and what a typical day looks like. Asher also shares his thoughts on how their relationship has changed as a result of the homeschooling dynamic. Debbie Reber is the founder of TiLT and the host of the TiLT Parenting Podcast. 12-year-old Asher is Debbie’s son and is regularly featured on the podcast. Things You'll Learn from This Episode: The pros and cons of homeschooling from a kid’s POV How Asher and I have co-designed our school structure, schedule, and curriculum How structure and flexibility can actually co-exist What a typical school day looks like in our world What I see as the biggest benefits of homeschooling Asher How Asher perceives our teacher-student relationship versus mother-son   Resources Mentioned: Image of our homeschooling daily schedule Khan Academy Kerbal Space Program Kurzgesagt YouTube Channel Ted-Ed Videos Support the show Connect with Tilt Parenting Visit Tilt Parenting Take the free 7-Day Challenge Read a chapter of Differently Wired Follow Tilt on Twitter & Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

If you're listening to this podcast, it's probably because a child you love and care for is differently wired.

0:07.0

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0:54.0

Hey there, it's Debbie, and welcome to Playback Friday.

0:57.0

Most Fridays, I re-release one of my favorite conversations from the archive.

1:01.0

So unless you're a long time listener of the show, there's a good chance you haven't heard this one yet.

1:06.1

And even if you have, you just might get something completely different from it, listening to it this time around.

1:18.0

There's a lot of flexibility, but we still get the things we need to get done. Done!

1:19.0

There is a lot of flexibility, and that's really important for you.

1:22.0

Yeah.

1:23.0

Which is kind of interesting because a lot of differently wired kids need a lot of structure.

1:27.0

And you do, you are someone who needs a schedule and structure, but within that.

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