54. Your Job is to Meet Your Child with Karen Mabie

Parenting a neurodivergent young person into adulthood can be a messy and challenging process.

We appreciate Karen coming on our show and sharing her perspectives and insights as an educational consultant and mother to an autistic adult daughter.

She is passionate about helping young people, and her perspectives from her professional and personal experiences can help us better support our neurodivergent young people and avoid some of the common pitfalls.

Karen is someone who “tells it like it is” and knows what she is talking about. Some great gems of wisdom you won’t want to miss from this episode.

What You'll Learn from this Episode:

The important gains in understanding and research about trauma in the last 20 years.
Why your job is to meet your child and what that means.
What every functioning adult does and what neurodivergents need to learn.
How to transition from being your kid’s advocate to them being their own advocate as a young adult.
Why the work we do isn’t about fixing them and what it is about.

Listen to the Full Episode:

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