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

TPP 227: Amelia Bowler Talks About Her New Book, The Parents' Guide to Oppositional Defiant Disorder

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

Debbie Reber

Education, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Author and behavior consultant Amelia Bowler talks about her new book, The Parents' Guide to Oppositional Defiant Disorder, what ODD is (and isn't), how it's diagnosed, and how to support kids with this profile. 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?

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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

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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. Everything that I family. That's BGS. Edu.

0:54.4

Everything that I thought was appropriate and useful

0:58.5

as a disciplinary approach was really blowing up in my face.

1:02.2

So what is wrong? That's a horrible, horrible question to have to ask.

1:06.2

But I think that's the problem that the label causes. The label tells us what adults around your child are feeling.

1:15.2

They are feeling opposed and they are feeling defied.

1:19.2

And they're saying that's not okay.

1:21.5

And so that's why we call it ODD. It doesn't tell us anything about the child at all.

1:29.5

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

1:35.3

informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids.

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