TPP 066: Allison Carmen on Finding Peace in Uncertainty and Embracing the Word “Maybe"

TILT Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children

Debbie Reber

Education, Parenting, Kids & Family

4.8 • 983 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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A conversation with the author of The Gift of Maybe, Allison Carmen, about what happens when parents raising differently-wired kids let go of their need for certainty and embrace the possibility of "maybe." 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 megaphone.fm/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	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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0:36.3	to create positive, effective, and collaborative learning experiences.
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0:46.0	E.d. you to learn more about what a strength-based assessment could mean for your family.
0:51.0	That's BGS.
0:52.0	E.d.U. And so sometimes when a parent will come to me and
0:56.8	they have a child that's going through a difficult time and illness or a disability,
1:01.4	it's not always the moment, it's what is this going to look like in 10 years?
1:05.0	What's this going to look like in 15 years?
1:07.0	How will they have a job?
1:08.5	How will they go to college?
1:10.0	And what maybe does, it brings us back to the moment.
1:13.5	And even if the moment is difficult,
1:15.3	it brings us back to this moment to say,
1:17.6	maybe things will be different than I think.
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