Debbie Reber
500 episodes
Feeling overwhelmed by the complexities of raising a neurodivergent child? Full-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, learning disabilities, 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 s…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
Full-Tilt Parenting gives neurodivergent families practical, emotionally literate conversations about screens, teens, EMDR, and young adult independence.
Full-Tilt Parenting is a Kids & Family show for parents raising neurodivergent kids. Debbie Reber hosts interview-led conversations that, in the sampled episodes, move through screens, online safety, teen conflict, EMDR, and the launch of young adults.
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A clear, grounded look at screens, family values, and what media can mean for differently wired kids.
Screen time is treated as part of family life, not just a rule to enforce, and the discussion gives equal weight to the ways media can help or unsettle differently wired kids. Debbie Reber keeps returning to a simple question: what is the media doing in a child's life?
Practical guidance for kids who freeze at the starting line.
The segment frames executive functioning as a plain parenting challenge: homework pushback, delayed starts, and the kind of overwhelm that can leave a child stuck before anything begins. Its best advice stays concrete.
EMDR is presented as a staged process that uses a concrete example to show how older memories can surface behind current symptoms.
Debbie Reber's Full Tilt Parenting conversation treats EMDR as careful work that starts with the person, not the problem. It moves from preparation into processing, and the clearest part is the concrete example: a fear of bald heads becomes the first target, then other memories…
A practical, parent-facing look at online safety that respects how complicated kids' digital lives really are.
Debbie Reber tackles a hard parenting problem in the digital age: how differently wired kids can move through online spaces without losing sight of safety, belonging, or accountability.
A steady reset for parents trying to turn teen conflict into connection.
Teen parenting lands in that hard middle where voices rise, doors close, and everyone starts protecting their own corner. Debbie Reber and Anne-Louise Lockhart keep the focus on repair, collaboration, and the plain-spoken need to say, "I want to do this differently." Lockhart…
A steady, unsentimental conversation about letting go without disappearing.
Debbie Reber and Penny Williams spend the conversation on the hard, unglamorous work of helping neurodivergent young adults move toward independence, or more exactly, interdependence. The strongest part is how it resists easy answers.
A useful reframing of executive function that starts with the adults in the room.
Debbie Reber brings Seth Perler back for a clear look at executive functioning, the skills kids use to plan, organize, regulate, and follow through.
A hopeful, practical guide for middle schoolers and the adults supporting them.
Chris Baum treats middle school as a stretch for agency and connection, not just something to endure. The best part is the concrete kid-facing material: a full family meal, starting a business, camping for the first time, becoming an apprentice, publishing work, or making a…
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.
Executive functioning is the center here.
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Screens get complicated fast.
What is actually happening in EMDR?
Some online roles are heavier than they look.
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.
Host Debbie Reber interviews Dr.
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.
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.