If you find yourself doing a lot of exhausting micromanaging of your neurodiverse child, teen or young adult this episode is for you.
There may be many reasons you fall into that parenting style and I offer some insights and tips to help you break out the micromanaging trap that isn’t serving you or your child’s development well.
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So many of our neurodiverse kids, teens, and young adults are rigid thinkers or have areas they get stuck and inflexible around. It’s often frustrating as a parent or mentor to bump up against that rigidity and not be able to influence or get through to our kids especially when they’re really struggling.
In this episode, I offer some insights to help you navigate rigidity and more effectively support growth and development.
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Frontloading is an effective tool for supporting development and growth in our neurodiverse children, teens, and young adults. In this episode, we explain what it is, why it’s so helpful, and how to do it effectively.
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Anger can be destructive and hurt relationships. In this episode, Jason explains how anger is a secondary emotion and what emotion is underneath it. He gives tips on how to manage our own anger and how you can mentor neurodiverse young people when they’re angry.
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What do you do when your child, teen, or young adult has no motivation to do their homework, help out around the house, have good hygiene, eat healthy, or any of the other less fun but necessary parts of life? Listen in as Debbie explains why the typical approaches don’t work in the long-term and what actually does. Debbie also offers four strategies to tap in to your child’s intrinsic motivation for long-term growth and success.
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In this episode, we talk with Laura the creator of ProgressParade.com, a website that matches students with expert learning specialists for online special education tutoring so learning challenges can turn into life-changing achievements. Laura explains the problems that come up with a “wait and see” approach and why you want to start interventions earlier. We talk about the important skills a good tutor helps students gain that go beyond learning specific academic content. Laura also offers some helpful tips for practicing executive functioning skills during the summer and preparing kids for the big back-to-school transition.
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With the high prevalence of neurodiverse individuals also having Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), it’s critical to understand what it is, what it isn’t, and how to manage it. In this episode, Jason explains OCD, why it’s different from the repetitive Autistic behavior called stemming, and why it’s important to understand the root causes. Jason shares the key to knowing how to manage OCD, helpful tips, and the one thing to never do.
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It can be really challenging to know if we’re parenting too much or too little. Especially when we have a son or daughter, that’s neurodiverse and has some developmental delays or extra challenges. When your child enters the adulting transition, it can get even more complicated.
How much should we support and how much should we back off? What’s helpful and what’s not. Too little support and management may hinder their progress because they don’t have what they need. Too much support and management can also impede their growth and development.
In this episode, I offer perspectives to help you stay out of the extremes and look at parenting differently. I also offer you what I have found to be key in experiencing more parenting wins, no matter where your son or daughter is in their development or how much managing they need.
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Join us for this in-depth discussion with Travis Slagle, the Clinical Director at Evoke Therapy Intensives.
Parenting can be really challenging, especially if we haven’t worked through our own issues. Parenting a neurodiverse child often adds additional stressors into the mix, bringing our personal issues into the equation.
We go into specifics of how that can look and feel in our parenting versus what effective parenting looks like even when we make mistakes, don’t have the answers, or face unsolvable problems.
We talk with Travis about how to recognize when we’re projecting and externalizing our own stress onto our children and family members and what questions you can ask yourself to create powerful shifts in your thinking and change how you show up as a parent.
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Why is maintaining good physical health and hygiene such an issue for some autistic and neurodiverse young people? In this episode, Jason gets real about the challenges and negative outcomes some of them experience, and offers insights into understanding what may be behind it. He also shares his experience and perspectives on how to support good health and hygiene and what not to do.
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