Glenbard Parent Series: 2020-10-25

Monday, October 26, 2020

Deborah Reber Differently Wired: Raising Unconventional Children in a Conventional World, GPS event on October 16, 2020

On Tuesday, Oct. 16 the Glenbard Parent Series hosted Deborah Reber the author of Differently Wired: Raising an Exceptional Child in a Conventional World.

Deborah Reber, MA, is a parenting activist, New York Times bestselling author, podcast host, and speaker who moved her career in a more personal direction in 2016 when she founded TiLT Parenting, a top podcast, community, and educational resource for parents like her who are raising differently wired children. Debbie’s newest book is Differently Wired: Raising an Exceptional Child in a Conventional World (Workman Publishing, 2018). In November 2018, she spoke at TEDxAmsterdam, delivering a talk entitled Why the Future Will Be Differently Wired.

Emma-Leigh S. Strock District 89 school psychologist shared the following takeaway:

Deb Reber reminded parents to raise their kids from a place of acceptance, and joy. Find opportunities to reinforce the idea that your child is loved. The parents' role is to create a world where our children feel secure, where we see children for who they are and who they are meant to be. The goal is to actively recognize, appreciate, and celebrate their unique wiring and commit to making them feel good about who they are, so they can best share their extraordinary gifts.

Resource links

Video of this event with Debber Reber: Differently Wired HERE (YouTube)

Take 5: Parent Preview – Deborah Reber on Reinforce All Kids With Love (YouTube)

Deborah Reber’s website

TiLT Parenting podcast

Out Now: Differently Wired: Raising an Exceptional Child in a Conventional World (Workman)

Watch Debbie’s TEDxAmsterdam talk: Why the Future Will Be Differently Wired

Dr. Christine Carter speak to GPS on teens’ uncertain futures, media overload among topics

On Tuesday, Oct. 20 the Glenbard Parent Series hosted Dr. Christine Carter the author of The New Adolescence: Raising Happy and Successful Teens in and Age of Anxiety and Distraction. Dr. Carter returned to the Glenbard Parents Series as part of our 25th year celebration to offer science-based strategies for raising happy, healthy, and successful young people.

Christine Carter, Ph.D., is a sociologist, and Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center. Her best-selling books include “The Adolescence: Raising Happy and Successful Teens in an Age of Anxiety and Distraction” (2020) and “Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents.”

Glenbard South parent Anita Gaikis shared the following takeaway:

Kids need freedom, privacy, and clear guidelines (given with warmth) about our expectations. Move to the role of consultant. We need to acknowledge our children’s very real loss and disappointments around the changes in their lives and schedules due to COVID-19. We need to acknowledge their feelings about the loss of their usual high school milestones. Teens experience their emotions very intensely. We need to actively listen without trying to fix or take away their grief and "name the emotion - to tame it". Is it sadness, anger, or frustration. Empathy is powerful!

A message from Dr. Christine Carter:

"I hope you will order my new book, The New Adolescence. It's available on Amazon, of course, but my favorite local bookstore, Book Passage, can also send it to you. If you want a signed, personalized copy, Book Passage can do that, too. Just add a note in the "Order Comments" section during checkout that you'd like it signed, and to whom you'd like me to personalize it.

Participants can text CARTER to 668-66 to receive additional resources."