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

TPP 056: Debbie and Her Husband Derin Talk About Parenting a Differently-Wired Child

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

Debbie Reber

Education, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Debbie and her husband Derin have an honest, open, and vulnerable conversation about their (up and down) journey as a couple navigating parenting a differently-wired child. 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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If you're listening to this podcast, it's probably because a child you love and care for is differently wired.

0:07.0

Are they also struggling in their current educational setting, seen only for what they're doing wrong, while longing for positive relationships with peers and others?

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0:24.9

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0:30.7

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0:36.3

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0:40.2

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0:43.0

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0:51.0

That's BGS.

0:52.0

E.d. U. I didn't get it. I didn't understand. I wanted him to be

0:59.0

regulated. I wanted you to be happy. I wanted to be able to help and that was a thing that that's the thing

1:07.5

that I felt so it was so hard for me is I was completely powerless or they said how I felt to help either of you in this

1:18.9

situation.

1:19.9

I saw my family really not not doing well and I didn't know how I just knew it wasn't working.

1:28.0

Welcome to the Tilt Parenting Podcast, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed

1:35.8

in inspiring, informing and supporting parents raising differently wire kids.

1:40.6

I'm your host Debbie Reaver and today is a very special episode with a very special

1:46.0

guest. That's right. Today I am bringing my husband Darren onto the show for a

1:51.5

super honest, super vulnerable conversation between the two of us about our journey as a couple navigating parenting a differently wired child.

2:00.0

I've been wanting to do this episode for quite a while and in fact I get a lot of requests for an episode covering this very topic so we are finally doing it and I will say that Darren was a little nervous to sit in the hot seat, but I'm really happy with how the episode turned out.

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