TILT Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children

TILT Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children

Feeling overwhelmed by the complexities of raising a neurodivergent child? Tilt Parenting is here to help. Hosted by parenting activist and author Debbie Reber, this podcast is your go-to resource for navigating life with ADHD, autism, PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance), giftedness, and twice-exceptional (2e) kids. With expert interviews and candid conversations, you'll discover practical solutions for things like school challenges and refusal, therapy options, and fostering inclusion, social struggles, advocacy, intense behavior, and more — all through a strengths-based, neurodiversity-affirming lens. Whether you're struggling with advocating for your child at school or seeking ways to better support their unique needs, Debbie offers the guidance and encouragement you need to reduce overwhelm and create a thriving, joyful family environment. It's like sitting down with a trusted friend who gets it. You’ve got this, and we’ve got your back!

Episodes

TPP 195a: The Conscious Discipline Methodology, with Dr. Becky Bailey

May 2, 2025 • 49 mins
Author, educator, child development expert Dr. Becky Bailey talks about her Conscious Discipline model of safety, connection and problem-solving to nurture children's social and emotional learning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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TPP 440: Dr. Tamara Rosier on the Complexities and Dynamics of an ADHD Family

April 29, 2025 • 44 mins
Would you define your family as an ADHD family? Today's guest, Dr. Tamara Rosier, and the author of the book You, Me, and Our ADHD Family: Practical Steps to Cultivate Healthy Relationships, says that ADHD isn’t an individual experience – it’s a relational one. And the ADHD dynamic affects the entire family system. I know many listeners of this show would identify as members of an ADHD family and so I’m excited to share this conve...
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TPP 194a: Educator and Community Activist Jason Allen on Differently Wired Students of Color

April 25, 2025 • 46 mins
Educator, blogger, and community activist Jason B. Allen shares his ideas for how traditional school environments need to change to better serve differently wired black students and, in particular, black and brown boys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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TPP 439: Jessica Slice on What We Can All Learn from Disabled Parenting

April 22, 2025 • 39 mins
Today we’re talking about the reality of parenting while disabled. My guest is Jessica Slice, the author of the new book Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World. A writer, advocate, and disabled mother who challenges the way society defines “fit” parenting, Jessica’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Disability Visibility.  In this episode, Jessica opens up about the unique ...
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TPP 193a: Filmmaker Chris Baier on Helping Families Get Unstuck from OCD

April 18, 2025 • 42 mins
Writer, filmmaker, and creative director Chris Baier talks about raising a daughter with OCD and the film their journey inspired him to produce, UNSTUCK, an award-winning short that explains OCD through the eyes of young people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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You Might Also Like: Climbing the Walls, from Understood.org

April 16, 2025 • 30 mins
Listen to an episode of Understood.org's new podcast Climbing the Wall, a 6-part series that investigates why women with ADHD have gone undiagnosed for so long… and how that changed dramatically during the pandemic, when the diagnosis of ADHD in women skyrocketed. The show asks: Why women? Why now? And how has underdiagnosis impacted women’s mental health?  Learn more here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.co...
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TPP 438: It’s Been 9 Years of Tilt Parenting — What’s Changed in the Movement? A Special Solocast with Debbie Reber

April 14, 2025 • 39 mins
​In this special 9-year anniversary episode, I'm doing things a little differently. Instead of a guest interview, I'm doing a solocast in which I share nine shifts I've noticed in the parenting paradigm for those of us raising neurodivergent kids over the past almost decade since I first founded Tilt. Some of the things I explore in this episode include the evolution of language within the neurodiversity movement, the increased rec...
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TPP 192a: Dr. Karen Wilson on How to Know if Your Child is Ready for Elementary School

April 11, 2025 • 43 mins
Clinical neuropsychologist Dr. Karen Wilson shares her best practices about the transition of differently wired children from preschool (or no school at all) into elementary school, including special considerations, vetting schools for fit, red-shirting practices, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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TPP 437: Dr. Devon Price on the Autistic Person's Guide to Unmasking for Life

April 8, 2025 • 48 mins
I’m excited to welcome Dr. Devon Price back to the show to talk about unmasking and self-acceptance for autistic individuals. You may know about Devon’s book Unmasking Autism, and if you haven’t I highly encourage you to go back and listen to our conversation about that book on the show – I’ll have a link in the show notes or you can find it at tiltparenting.com/session292. But today, we are discussing Devon’s brand new book Unmas...
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TPP 190a: Dr. Melanie Hayes Talks About Her Big Minds Micro-School and Educating 2e Children

April 4, 2025 • 47 mins
Big Minds micro-school founder Dr. Melanie Hayes shares her story of starting a school for twice-exceptional learners, and discusses ways 2e students' needs can be met in traditional educational setting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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TPP 436: Dr. John Duffy on Helping Our Struggling Teen Boys

April 1, 2025 • 38 mins
A few months ago, I had my friend and colleague Cathy Adams on the show to talk about her book Restoring Our Girls and raising daughters to be emotionally healthy in a complicated world. I knew then that I wanted to have a similar conversation for a future episode, but this time, focusing on boys, specifically about why many teen boys are struggling right now and what we, as parents, can do to support them. I also knew exactly who ...
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TPP 188a: Dr. Terry Roberts on "The New Smart" and How Nurturing Creativity Will Help Children Thrive

March 28, 2025 • 52 mins
Educator and author Terry Roberts, PhD, discusses his new book "The New Smart: How Nurturing Creativity Will Help Children Thrive," and shares his ideas surrounding the future of work, what the education model is getting wrong and why it needs to change, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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TPP 435: William Stixrud and Ned Johnson on the Seven Principles for Raising a Self-Driven Child

March 25, 2025 • 50 mins
I’m thrilled to welcome back two favorite podcast guests and just all-around wonderful humans, Dr. William Stixrud and Ned Johnson. You might know them from their bestselling book The Self-Driven Child, which I often refer to on this show as one of the most important resources in my parenting life. Well, Bill and Ned have a new phenomenal resource that I can’t wait to share with you — a workbook based on their beloved book called T...
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TPP 186a: Author and Illustrator Samantha Cotterill Discusses Her New Book Series, Little Senses

March 21, 2025 • 45 mins
Children's picture book author / illustrator Samantha Cotterill discusses her new book series, Little Senses, which highlights the experience of children with sensory issues or ASD, and also shares her own journey of growing up as a girl on the spectrum. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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TPP 434: Educator Lily Howard Scott on Shaping Kids Through Words

March 18, 2025 • 46 mins
Today, we are talking about one of the most accessible and impactful tools we’ve got to help our kids thrive. But this tool is so simple and obvious that we may not even realize its immense power. I’m talking about WORDS, as in, the words we use when talking with our children. The language we use with our children can make a profound difference in the way our kids relate to themselves and how their brains process situations.  We’re...
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TPP 185a: Eileen Devine on Supporting Children with Pre-Natal Substance Exposure

March 14, 2025 • 48 mins
Eileen Devine, a neurobehavioral therapist and support coach, discusses supporting children with brain-based neurodevelopmental challenges resulting from pre-natal exposure to drugs or alcohol, as well as the unique challenges for adoptive parents raising atypical children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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TPP 433: Educator Rob Barnett on What it Takes to Meet Every Learner's Needs

March 11, 2025 • 42 mins
​Today I’ve got a really interesting conversation for you about a relatively new instruction model that is designed to create learning environments that truly meet the needs of every student. It’s called the Modern Classroom Project, and my guest is Robert Barnett, is the co-founder of the model as well as the author of the new book that describes this approach called Meet Every Learner’s Needs: Redesigning Instruction So All Learn...
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TPP 183a: Jess Sherman on Nutrition For Our Child's Brain, Mood, Behavior, and Better Overall Health

March 7, 2025 • 50 mins
Nutritionist Jess Sherman shares ideas for how parents can bring more nourishment into their children’s lives, including, or maybe especially those with food sensitivities, picky or aggressive behavior. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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TPP 432: A Conversation with Zoe Bisbing About ARFID & Neurodivergence

March 4, 2025 • 46 mins
If your child has extreme food aversions, anxiety around eating, or struggles with a very limited diet, you won’t want to miss this conversation. Today we’re diving into ARFID — Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder — or as my guest calls it, “picky eating on steroids.” To talk about ARFID, I circled back to Zoë Bisbing, a licensed psychotherapist and the director of Body-Positive Therapy NYC who specializes in treating eating ...
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TPP 182a: A Conversation with Autism and Neurodiversity Support Specialist Kristy Forbes

February 28, 2025 • 55 mins
My guest this week is autism and neurodiversity support specialist Kristy Forbes of In Tune Pathways. Kristy is the parent of four autistic children, and has an abundance of emotional, practical, and lived experience both working with and raising children who are neurodivergent. She has an extensive background in early childhood education and psychology, and as you’ll hear from our conversation, is passionate about radical acceptan...
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