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

TPP 136: KJ Dell'Antonia on How to Be a Happier Parent

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

Debbie Reber

Education, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Author and former NY Times Motherlode editor KJ Dell'Antonia talks about her book "How To Be a Happier Parent" and what she learned about how parents can bring more happiness into their daily lives. 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?

0:15.6

Envision a world where your child's unique abilities are not just recognized but celebrated.

0:21.0

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

0:24.9

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

0:30.7

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.

0:40.2

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

0:43.0

Visit W.

0:45.0

BGS.ed.

0:47.0

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. family. That's BGS. Edu.

0:54.0

Sometimes it can be really annoying to have people say, well, you know, appreciate the positive things.

0:58.6

Be grateful.

0:59.6

And that's really, that's not what I'm saying.

1:02.1

It's more just that our brains are really

1:06.1

designed to focus on the negative stuff so we don't need to give into that.

1:10.8

Like our brains want to like look for the tigers right that's that's our our natural makeup it's what

1:17.2

has felt important throughout our lives and for us to shift our mental

1:26.2

mixtape to more of a positive one is difficult,

1:31.2

but once you get it rolling you know it becomes a

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