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

TPP 083: A Conversation with Melissa Wardy About Raising Anxious Kids

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

Debbie Reber

Education, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Author Melissa Wardy shares her personal story of discovering her children's anxiety disorder and adapting her life to support who they are. 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

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

Visit W. bgs.edU to learn more about what a strength-based assessment could mean for your family.

0:51.0

That's Bgs. Edu. I don't know what happened but all of a sudden

0:55.6

something in her just switched and turned off and it was like this bright

0:59.4

glimmer that had been in her eyes was gone and her eyes took this flat dead look to them and that

1:05.4

sounds like so melodramatic but it's really true even when I look back through

1:08.4

pictures the shape of her eyes are different it was just so much stress in this tiny body. You know, looking back, I just

1:16.0

sometimes I just want to cry. I just think about what she had to be going through and pushing

1:21.0

through each day to try to make some benchmark of normalcy

1:26.0

while she was in school.

1:30.1

Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids.

1:38.0

I'm your host Debbie Reber and today I'm sitting down with a fellow parent in the trenches and the author of the book Redefining

1:44.4

Girlly, how parents can fight the stereotyping and sexualizing of girlhood from birth to tween,

1:50.5

Melissa Wardy.

1:52.1

In this conversation today, we're going to be talking about how

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