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

Executive functioning is the center here.

Debbie Reber and Penny Williams discuss the emotional challenges of launching neurodivergent young adults, emphasizing the need to redefine success, embrace interdependence, and navigate parental trauma.

In part two of this masterclass, executive functioning coach Seth Perler dives into specific strategies like Frankenstudy for personalized learning, planners, timers, and browser optimization to help neurodivergent kids succeed in school.

Host Debbie Reber interviews Dr.

Debbie Reber interviews Chris Balme about his new book 'Challenge Accepted', which offers 50 adventures to help middle schoolers turn adolescence into a meaningful growth experience.

Dr.

Some online roles are heavier than they look.

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Screens get complicated fast.

Stephanie Malia Krause says modern life is a 'dangerous weather' system of overwork, addictive tech, and existential dread, and Debbie Reber brings that argument to Full Tilt Parenting.

["Nicole Tetreault says brains respond to emotional connection and engagement, not rote instruction, and she links that to gifted, autistic, ADHD, and twice-exceptional kids.", "On Full Tilt Parenting, Debbie Reber talks with Tetreault about Insight into a Bright Mind, a book shaped by more than 2,000 research papers and her own family story.", "Tetreault says her work started with her mother's Parkinson's disease, her son's gifted identification in third grade, and her own late recognition that she is dyslexic and neurodiverse.", "She recommends a strength-based model from Susan Baum and Bridges Academy, plus simple scaffolds like a homework folder that helped her son build independence."]

Debbie Reber's Full Tilt Parenting interview with Dr.

Debbie Reber talks with Dr.

["Full Tilt Parenting centers on Debbie Reber and Matthew Fishleader talking about the inner life of parents raising neurodivergent children, with worry, guilt, and burnout framed as responses to chronic stress.", "Fishleader, a licensed marriage and family therapist in Maryland, Virginia, and California, traces his interest in psychotherapy to high school and to a fourth-grade conflict resolution team that used 'I statements.'", "The conversation moves through screen-time advice, American Academy of Pediatrics pages, Dan Pink's 'if-only' regret framing, and the stress of location tracking and hypervigilance.", "Reber and Fishleader keep returning to Dan Siegel's 'name it to tame it,' the quilt-and-observer metaphor, and the pressure on high-achieving mothers carrying the mental load."]

Host Debbie Reber promotes the Differently Wired Club membership community and introduces a replay episode about body image and appearance ideals in children.

Debbie Reber introduces the Differently Wired Club and shares a replay of a conversation with Hunter Clark Fields about mindfulness for parents of neurodivergent kids.

Debbie Reber promotes her Differently Wired Club and introduces a reverse interview about education challenges for neurodivergent kids.

Debbie Reber promotes the Differently Wired Club and shares a classic episode on the stigma faced by special education students.

Debbie Reber introduces the Differently Wired Club and discusses responding to aggression in neurodivergent boys with understanding and connection.