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

TPP 088: Jessica Lahey Talks About the Gifts of Failure for Our Kids

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

Debbie Reber

Education, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Educator Jessica Lahey talks about her book "The Gift of Failure" and how we can best prepare our kids for an independent, successful adulthood. 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

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others?

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A world where they can connect with others and their true potential is seen and

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appreciated. The Strength-based Assessment Lab's mission is to build a world for your child just

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like that. Through its innovative approach that aims to empower students, families, educators, and professionals

0:36.3

to create positive, effective, and collaborative learning experiences.

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Be a part of shaping a brighter future for your child.

0:43.0

Visit W.

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BGS.ed.

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

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That's BGS.

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E.D.U. family. That's BGS. Edu.

0:55.0

The big thing that Gift of Failure is about is about trying to get our kids back into a state

1:00.0

where they're intrinsically motivated to want to do stuff, not because we're dangling

1:03.8

carrots in front of them or making sticker charts or threatening them or promising to pay

1:08.3

them for grades.

1:09.4

And one of the ways we can do that is by engaging them in the process because that's giving them autonomy

1:14.9

over the details of their lives.

1:18.6

Welcome to Till Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at

1:23.7

inspiring informing and supporting parents raising differently wired

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