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

TPP 213: How to Talk to Kids When the World Feels Like a Scary Place

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

Debbie Reber

Education, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Child psychologist Dr. Abigail Gewirtz talks about her new book, When the World Feels Like a Scary Place: Essential Conversations for Anxious Parents and Worried Kids, and provides insights on talking to kids at Covid-19, racism, and more. 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?

0:15.6

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0:21.0

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

0:24.9

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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. So we tend to deal with emotions in a variety of

0:56.9

different ways often depending on you know who we are and how we've been

1:00.3

brought up. So we certainly have parents who really talk about kids

1:06.2

feelings, but we also have parents who unknowingly, you know, they say,

1:10.3

there, there, don't worry, there's nothing to worry about.

1:13.3

And the message that gives to kids is, my emotions aren't important signals.

1:18.4

All there are things to be sort of brushed under the carpet.

1:29.5

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

1:33.6

I'm happy to be bringing you an important conversation for our current moment.

1:38.1

I'm talking to the author of the new book,

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